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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 2 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2023 Paper 2 8 c Solution by
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For a normal subgroup , the quotient group consists of its cosets with multiplicationTo check that this is well-defined, replace by with . Their product issince normality puts in . Hence the product does not depend on representatives. Associativity follows from that in , the identity element is , and . These verify the group axioms.
Lagrange's theorem counts the equal-sized cosets:Finally, if is prime, choose . Its cyclic subgroup has order greater than one dividing , hence equals . All elements are powers of , so . Thus
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