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- From: cyeomans@ms.uky.edu (Charles Yeomans)
- Subject: Re: Couple of questions
- References: <1992Sep9.102457.15049@news.columbia.edu>
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.92213.5190@ms.uky.edu>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 13:22:13 GMT
- Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
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- In article <1992Sep9.102457.15049@news.columbia.edu> pvl2@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Priscilla V Loanzon) writes:
- >Could someone please explain to me a few basic things:
- >
- >What is the logic used to answer questions of the below type?
- >
- >1) If the finite group G contains a subgroup of order 7 but no element
- >(other than the identity) is its own inverse then the order of group G
- >could be (a)27 (b)28 (c)35 (d)37 (e)42.
- >
- >It says that the correct anwer is (c). I know why we can eliminate (a)
- >and (d) but don't know how to proceed further.
- >
- >
- >
- SInce G contains a subgroup of order 7,Lagrange's theorem tells us that
- the order of G is divisible by 7. This rules out (a) and (d). THe other
- hypothesis tells us that G has no element of order 2; thus the order of G
- can not be divisible by 2 (use Sylow theorem here). This eliminates (b)
- and (e).
-
- Charles Yeomans
- cyeomans@ms.uky.edu
- yeomans@austin.onu.edu
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