Solution

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A member of is . The multiplication law from part (a) becomes
It stays in and is unchanged when the two factors are exchanged, since . The identity lies in , and also lies in . Thus is an Abelian subgroup, namely the Abelian plane subgroup of a finite Heisenberg group in this coordinate convention.
There are five choices each for , so
This verifies Lagrange's theorem: the subgroup order divides the group order, and the number of distinct left cosets is five.
Explicitly, the map is a surjective group homomorphism to the additive group of , by the product formula. Its kernel of a group homomorphism is . Thus is even a normal subgroup; the five left cosets are the level sets for , with representatives . Each contains 25 elements, providing a direct count as well.

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