Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2025/ib/paper-3/10e/a/i/solution

If a prime divided every coefficient of , reducing modulo that prime would make the product of the two nonzero reduced primitive polynomials zero in a domain, impossible. Thus a product of primitive polynomials is primitive. Factoring the contents from arbitrary then gives
for a unit .

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