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[QUOTE="upsidedowntop, post: 3279947, member: 326321"] [h2]Homework Statement [/h2] Show that the group R of rotational symmetries of a dodecahedron is simple and has order 60. [h2]The Attempt at a Solution[/h2] I see how to get order 60 using the orbit stabilizer theorem. Letting R act in the natural way on the set of faces, we find the size of the orbit of a face is 12 and the size of the stabilizer of a face is 5. So |R| = 60. Also, by letting R act on the set of cubes inscribed inside the dodecahedron, we can show that R is isomorphic to a subgroup of S5, so must be A5, which is the only order 60 subgroup of S5. But I don't think I'm supposed to use this method because the next question is to show that R is isomorphic to A5. Anyway, how do you determine that R is simple without having to totally classify it? Thanks in advance. [/QUOTE]
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