Exercise · ZW-FIRST-ISOMORPHISM-THEOREM-003 · ★☆☆ Basic

A surjective homomorphism \(\varphi:G\to H\) has \(|G|=24\) and \(|\ker\varphi|=4\). What is \(|H|\)?

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  • D. 6

Explanation

Since \(\varphi\) is surjective, \(H=\operatorname{im}\varphi\cong G/\ker\varphi\), which has \(24/4=6\) elements. Multiplying (96) or subtracting (20) does not give the size of a quotient.

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Every group homomorphism \(\varphi:G\to H\) induces an isomorphism between the quotient of \(G\) by the kernel of \(\varphi\) and the image of \(\varphi\).

\[G/\ker\varphi\;\cong\;\varphi(G),\qquad a\ker\varphi\mapsto\varphi(a)\]

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