is a subgroup of a group if the identity element belongs to ; and also the inverse element belongs to . We illustrate this by example.
Example 1
If is an abelian group and if show that is a subgroup of .
Solution
(i) hence
(ii) If then so
(iii) If that's , multiplying both sides of the equality by we get
Hence and thus is a subgroup of
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