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These mock exams are provided to help you prepare for Term/Final tests. The best way to use these practice tests is to try the problems as if you were taking the test. Please don't look at the solution until you have attempted the question(s). Only reading through the answers or studying them, will typically not be helpful in preparing since it is too easy to convince yourself that you understand them.  
Exercise 1

 

Consider the symmetric group S7.

  1. Factor the permutation (12345)(67)(1357)(613) into disjoint cycles.
  2. Identify all possible types of permutations and specify the quantity of each type.
  3.  Find the possible order of all the elements of S7.
  4. Show that S7 is not abelian.
Exercise 2
  1. Show that A4 is normal to S4.
  2.  What are the conjugacy classes of A4?
Exercise 3

Consider D4={e,a,a2,a3,b,ab,a2b,a3b} with a4=e,b2=e,ba=a3b.

  1. Show that Z(D4)={e,a2}. (Hint: Z(G)={xG|ax=xa,aG}.)
  2. List the left and right cosets of Z(D4), in D4.  
Exercise 4
  1. Prove or disprove: U(5) is isormorphic to Z4 .
  2.  Prove or disporove: Z under addition is isormorphic to Q under addition.
Exercise 5
  1. Show that 17 and 60 are relatively prime, determine the multiplicative inverse of [17] in Z60.
  2.  Find all xZ satisfying the equation 17x12(mod60).
Exercise 6

Let G be a group. Prove or disprove the following statements:

Let H and K be subgroups of the group G. Then

  1.  HK is a subgroup of G.
  2.  HK is a subgroup of G.
Exercise 7

Consider the group Z12 with addition modulo 12.  

  1.  Is (Z12,+mod(12)) cyclic group?  If so, what are the possible generators? How many distinct generators exist? What can you say about the number of generators, considering the Euler totient function and the possible generators in relation to divisors?
  2.  Let G=g be a cyclic group with |g|=n. Then  G=gk if and only if gcd(k,n)=1.
  3.  Find all subgroups of Z12 generated by each element. What are their respective orders? What can you say about these orders?
Exercise 8
  1.  Let G=<a> where   |a|=12, and let H=<a4>. Find all cosets in G/H and  write down the Cayley table. Is G/H cyclic? Why or why not?
      Find the cosets in D6/Z(D6), write down the Cayley table of  D6/Z(D6).  Is D6/Z(D6) cyclic, why or why not?

  2.  Prove or disprove the following statements:  If H is a normal subgroup of G such that H and G/H are abelian, then 
    G is abelian.

Exercise 9

An element e of a ring R is said to be idempotent if e2=e.

  1.   If e is an idempotent of a ring R, then show that 12e is a unit.
  2.  Find all idempotents in Z12.
  3.   Find all the idempotents in an integral domain R.
Exercise 10

 List or characterize all of the following rings' units. Justify your answer.

  1.   Z12
  2. M22(Z2)
  3. Z(i)

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