Solution

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Let be prime and choose . Its order divides by part (iii), and cannot be one. Hence its order is , so its generated subgroup has the same number of elements as the whole group:
This proves that a group of prime order is cyclic. In fact every nonidentity element is a generator. No commutativity assumption was needed; it follows from cyclicity.

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