Solution

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Suppose were a normal subgroup of index and put . The supplied reduction map and part (c) show that is generated by the images of . Their orders divide and , respectively, because and . By Lagrange's theorem, their orders also divide . Since , both and equal one. Thus , forcing to be trivial and , a contradiction. No such normal subgroup exists for .

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