Solution

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The conjugacy class of is . Rotations commute with one another, while conjugation by a reflection changes to . Thus the rotation classes are , and .
For reflections,
Because multiplication by two permutes the residues modulo five, these conjugates exhaust all five reflections. Consequently the complete class partition is
Their sizes account for every element, as in the conjugacy classes of a finite dihedral group.
A normal subgroup is a union of complete conjugacy classes. The trivial subgroup is normal, and the rotation subgroup is normal because conjugation preserves it; equivalently it has index two. None of the five order-two subgroups is normal, because it contains just one member of the five-element reflection class. Thus the proper normal subgroups are exactly

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