OCR Further Additional Pure AS 2019 June — Question 7

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleFurther Additional Pure AS (Further Additional Pure AS)
Year2019
SessionJune
TopicGroups

7 You are given the set \(S = \{ 1,5,7,11,13,17 \}\) together with \(\times _ { 18 }\), the operation of multiplication modulo 18.
  1. Complete the Cayley table for \(\left( S , \times _ { 18 } \right)\) given in the Printed Answer Booklet.
  2. Prove that ( \(S , \times _ { 18 }\) ) is a group. (You may assume that \(\times _ { 18 }\) is associative.)
  3. Write down the order of each element of the group.
  4. Show that \(\left( S , \times _ { 18 } \right)\) is a cyclic group.
    1. Give an example of a non-cyclic group of order 6 .
    2. Give one reason why your example is structurally different to \(\left( S , { } _ { 18 } \right)\).