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Simplicity of the alternating group A5

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The conjugacy classes of A5​ have sizes
1,15,20,12,12.
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A normal subgroup is a union of these classes containing the identity. No proper nontrivial such union has size dividing 60, so Lagrange's theorem proves that A5​ is simple.

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