Let G be the multiplicative group of all nonsingular 2 X 2 matrices with rational entries. Show

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Let G be the multiplicative group of all nonsingular 2 X 2 matrices with rational entries. Show that a=imagehas order 4 and b =imagehas order 3, but ab has infinite order. Conversely, show that the additive groupZ2⊕Z contains nonzero elements a,b of infinite order such that a + b has finite order.

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