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Past exam of the Probability, statistics and options II course of the University of Oxford 2011 A A2 b Solution by
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Over , the cubic takes value one at both zero and one, so it has no root. A reducible cubic over a field has a linear factor and therefore a root; hence this cubic is irreducible. Adjoin a root:This extension has basis , degree three and eight elements. Squaring preserves polynomial equations with coefficients in , so and are roots too. The nonzero element is not one; the multiplicative group has prime order seven, so has order seven. The exponents are distinct modulo seven, making these three roots distinct. Thus they are all the roots and already lie in . Therefore
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