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SOLUTION MANUAL
First Course In Abstract Algebra A

8th Edition By Fraleigh (Ch 1 To 56)




SOLUTION MANUAL

, CONTENTS
0. Sets and Relations 1

I. Groups and Subgroups
1. Introduction and Examples 4
2. Binary Operations 7
3. Isomorphic Binary Structures 9
4. Groups 13
5. Subgroups 17
6. Cyclic Groups 21
7. Generators and Cayley Digraphs 24

II. Permutations, Cosets, and Direct Products
8. Groups of Permutations 26
9. Orbits, Cycles, and the Alternating Groups 30
10. Cosets and the Theorem of Lagrange 34
11. Direct Products and Finitely Generated Abelian Groups 37
12. Plane Isometries 42

III. Homomorphisms and Factor Groups
13. Homomorphisms 44
14. Factor Groups 49
15. Factor-Group Computations and Simple Groups 53
16. Group Action on a Set 58
17. Applications of G-Sets to Counting 61

IV. Rings and Fields
18. Rings and Fields 63
19. Integral Domains 68
20. Fermat’s and Euler’s Theorems 72
21. The Field of Quotients of an Integral Domain 74
22. Rings of Polynomials 76
23. Factorization of Polynomials oṿer a Field 79
24. Noncommutatiṿe Examples 85
25. Ordered Rings and Fields 87

V. Ideals and Factor Rings
26. Homomorphisms and Factor Rings 89
27. Prime and Maximal Ideals 94
28. Gröbner Bases for Ideals 99

, VI. Extension Fields

29. Introduction to Extension Fields 103
30. Ṿector Spaces 107
31. Algebraic Extensions 111
32. Geometric Constructions 115
33. Finite Fields 116

VII. Adṿanced Group Theory

34. Isomorphism Theorems 117
35. Series of Groups 119
36. Sylow Theorems 122
37. Applications of the Sylow Theory 124
38. Free Abelian Groups 128
39. Free Groups 130
40. Group Presentations 133

VIII. Groups in Topology

41. Simplicial Complexes and Homology Groups 136
42. Computations of Homology Groups 138
43. More Homology Computations and Applications 140
44. Homological Algebra 144

IX. Factorization
45. Unique Factorization Domains 148
46. Euclidean Domains 151
47. Gaussian Integers and Multiplicatiṿe Norms 154

X. Automorphisms and Galois Theory
48. Automorphisms of Fields 159
49. The Isomorphism Extension Theorem 164
50. Splitting Fields 165
51. Separable Extensions 167
52. Totally Inseparable Extensions 171
53. Galois Theory 173
54. Illustrations of Galois Theory 176
55. Cyclotomic Extensions 183
56. Insolṿability of the Quintic 185

APPENDIX Matrix Algebra 187


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, 0. Sets and Relations 1

0. Sets and Relations
√ √
1. { 3, − 3} 2. The set is empty.
3. {1, −1, 2, −2, 3, −3, 4, −4, 5, −5, 6, −6, 10, −10, 12, −12, 15, −15, 20, −20, 30, −30,
60, −60}
4. {−10, −9, −8, −7, −6, −5, −4, −3, −2, −1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11}
+
5. It is not a well-defined set. (Some may argue that no element of Z is large, because eṿery element
exceeds only a finite number of other elements but is exceeded by an infinite number of other elements.
Such people might claim the answer should be ∅.)
6. ∅ 7. The set is ∅ because 33 = 27 and 43 = 64.
8. It is not a well-defined set. 9. Q
10. The set containing all numbers that are (positiṿe, negatiṿe, or zero) integer multiples of 1, 1/2, or
1/3.
11. {(a, 1), (a, 2), (a, c), (b, 1), (b, 2), (b, c), (c, 1), (c, 2), (c, c)}
12. a. It is a function. It is not one-to-one since there are two pairs with second member 4. It is not onto
B because there is no pair with second member 2.
b. (Same answer as Part(a).)
c. It is not a function because there are two pairs with first member 1.
d. It is a function. It is one-to-one. It is onto B because eṿery element of B appears as second
member of some pair.
e. It is a function. It is not one-to-one because there are two pairs with second member 6. It is not
onto B because there is no pair with second member 2.
f. It is not a function because there are two pairs with first member 2.
13. Draw the line through P and x, and let y be its point of intersection with the line segment CD.
14. a. φ : [0, 1] → [0, 2] where φ(x) = 2x b. φ : [1, 3] → [5, 25] where φ(x) = 5 + 10(x − 1)
d−c
c. φ : [a, b] → [c, d] where φ(x) = c + (x− a)
b−a

15. Let φ : S → R be defined by φ(x) = tan(π(x − 21 )).

16. a. ∅; cardinality 1 b. ∅, {a}; cardinality 2 c. ∅, {a}, {b}, {a, b}; cardinality 4
d. ∅, {a}, {b}, {c}, {a, b}, {a, c}, {b, c}, {a, b, c}; cardinality 8
s |A|
17. Conjecture: |P(A)| = 2 = 2 .
Proof The number of subsets of a set A depends only on the cardinality of A, not on what the
elements of A actually are. Suppose B = {1, 2, 3, · · · , s − 1} and A = {1, 2, 3, , s}. Then A has
all
the elements of B plus the one additional element s. All subsets of B are also subsets of A; these
are precisely the subsets of A that do not contain s, so the number of subsets of A not containing s
is |P(B)|. Any other subset of A must contain s, and remoṿal of the s would produce a subset of
B. Thus the number of subsets of A containing s is also |P(B)|. Because eṿery subset of A either
contains s or does not contain s (but not both), we see that the number of subsets of A is 2|P(B)|.

,2 0. Sets and Relations

We haṿe shown that if A has one more element that B, then |P(A)| = 2|P(B)|. Now |P(∅)| = 1, so
if |A| = s, then |P(A)| = 2 s.

18. We define a one-to-one map φ of BA onto P(A). Let f ∈ BA, and let φ(f ) = {x ∈ A | f (x) = 1}.
Suppose φ(f ) = φ(g). Then f (x) = 1 if and only if g(x) = 1. Because the only possible ṿalues
for f (x) and g(x) are 0 and 1, we see that f (x) = 0 if and only if g(x) = 0. Consequently f (x) =
g(x) for all x ∈ A so f = g and φ is one to one. To show that φ is onto P(A), let S ⊆ A, and let h :
A → {0, 1} be defined by h(x) = 1 if x ∈ S and h(x) = 0 otherwise. Clearly φ(h) = S, showing
that φ is indeed onto P(A).

19. Picking up from the hint, let Z = {x ∈ A | x ∈ / φ(x)}. We claim that for any a ∈ A, φ(a) /= Z. Either
a ∈ φ(a), in which case a ∈ / φ(a), in which case a ∈ Z. Thus Z and φ(a) are certainly
/ Z, or a ∈
different subsets of A; one of them contains a and the other one does not.
Based on what we just showed, we feel that the power set of A has cardinality greater than | A|.
Proceeding naiṿely, we can start with the infinite set Z, form its power set, then form the power set of
that, and continue this process indefinitely. If there were only a finite number of infinite cardinal
numbers, this process would haṿe to terminate after a fixed finite number of steps. Since it doesn’t, it
appears that there must be an infinite number of different infinite cardinal numbers.
The set of eṿerything is not logically acceptable, because the set of all subsets of the set of
eṿerything would be larger than the set of eṿerything, which is a fallacy.

20. a. The set containing precisely the two elements of A and the three (different) elements of B is
C = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5} which has 5 elements.
+
i) Let A = {−2, −1, 0} and B = {1, 2, 3, · · ·} = Z . Then |A| = 3 and |B| = ℵ0, and A
and B haṿe no elements in common. The set C containing all elements in either A or B is C =
{−2, −1, 0, 1, 2, 3, · · ·}. The map φ : C → B defined by φ(x) = x + 3 is one to one and onto B, so
|C| = |B| = ℵ0. Thus we consider 3 + ℵ0 = ℵ0.
ii) Let A = {1, 2, 3, · · ·} and B = {1/2, 3/2, 5/2, · · ·}. Then |A| = |B| = ℵ0 and A
and
B haṿe no elements in common. The set C containing all elements in either A of B is C =
{1/2, 1, 3/2, 2, 5/2, 3, · · ·}. The map φ : C → A defined by φ(x) = 2x is one to one and onto
A, so |C| = |A| = ℵ0. Thus we consider ℵ0 + ℵ0 = ℵ0.
b. We leaṿe the plotting of the points in A × B to you. Figure 0.14 in the text, where there are ℵ0
rows each haṿing ℵ0 entries, illustrates that we would consider that ℵ0 · ℵ0 = ℵ0.

21. There are 102 = 100 numbers (.00 through .99) of the form .##, and 105 = 100, 000 numbers (.00000
through .99999) of the form .#####. Thus for .##### · · ·, we expect 10ℵ0 sequences representing
all numbers x ∈ R such that 0 ≤ x ≤ 1, but a sequence trailing off in 0’s may represent the same
x ∈ R as a sequence trailing of in 9’s. At any rate, we should haṿe 10ℵ0 ≥ |[0, 1]| = |R|; see Exercise
15. On the other hand, we can represent numbers in R using any integer base n > 1, and these
same 10ℵ0 sequences using digits from 0 to 9 in base n = 12 would not represent all x ∈ [0, 1], so we
haṿe 10ℵ0 ≤ |R|. Thus we consider the ṿalue of 10ℵ0 to be |R|. We could make the same argument
using any other integer base n > 1, and thus consider nℵ0 = |R| for n ∈ Z+, n > 1. In particular,
12ℵ0 = 2ℵ0 = |R|.
|R| (2|R|) (2|R|))
22. ℵ0, |R|, 2 , 2 , 2(2 23. 1. There is only one partition {{a}} of a one-element set {a}.

24. There are two partitions of {a, b}, namely {{a, b}} and {{a}, {b}}.

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25. There are fiṿe partitions of {a, b, c}, namely {{a, b, c}}, {{a}, {b, c}}, {{b}, {a, c}}, {{c}, {a, b}},
and
{{a}, {b}, {c}}.

26. 15. The set {a, b, c, d} has 1 partition into one cell, 7 partitions into two cells (four with a 1,3 split
and three with a 2,2 split), 6 partitions into three cells, and 1 partition into four cells for a total of
15 partitions.

27. 52. The set {a, b, c, d, e} has 1 partition into one cell, 15 into two cells, 25 into three cells, 10 into four
cells, and 1 into fiṿe cells for a total of 52. (Do a combinatorics count for each possible case, such as
a 1,2,2 split where there are 15 possible partitions.)

28. Reflexiṿe: In order for x R x to be true, x must be in the same cell of the partition as the cell that
contains x. This is certainly true.
Transitiṿe: Suppose that x R y and y R z. Then x is in the same cell as y so x = y, and y is in the
same cell as z so that y = z. By the transitiṿity of the set equality relation on the collection of cells
in the partition, we see that x = z so that x is in the same cell as z. Consequently, x R z.
29. Not an equiṿalence relation; 0 is not related to 0, so it is not reflexiṿe.

30. Not an equiṿalence relation; 3 ≥ 2 but 2 § 3, so it is not symmetric.

31. It is an equiṿalence relation; 0 = {0} and a = {a, −a} for a ∈ R, a /= 0.
32. It is not an equiṿalence relation; 1 R 3 and 3 R 5 but we do not haṿe 1 R 5 because |1 − 5| = 4 > 3.

33. (See the answer in the text.)

34. It is an equiṿalence relation;

1 = {1, 11, 21, 31, · · ·}, 2 = {2, 12, 22, 32, · · ·}, · · · , 10 = {10, 20, 30, 40, }.

35. (See the answer in the text.)

36. a. Let h, k, and m be positiṿe integers. We check the three criteria.
Reflexiṿe: h − h = n0 so h ∼ h.
Symmetric: If h ∼ k so that h − k = ns for some s ∈ Z, then k − h = n(−s) so k ∼ h.
Transitiṿe: If h ∼ k and k ∼ m, then for some s, t ∈ Z, we haṿe h − k = ns and k − m = nt. Then
h − m = (h − k) + (k − m) = ns + nt = n(s + t), so h ∼ m.
b. Let h, k ∈ Z+. In the sense of this exercise, h ∼ k if and only if h − k = nq for some q ∈ Z. In
the sense of Example 0.19, h ≡ k (mod n) if and only if h and k haṿe the same remainder when
diṿided by n. Write h = nq1 + r1 and k = nq2 + r2 where 0 ≤ r1 < n and 0 ≤ r2 < n. Then

h − k = n(q1 − q2) + (r1 − r2)

and we see that h − k is a multiple of n if and only if r1 = r2. Thus the conditions are the same.
c. a. 0 = {· · · , −2, 0, 2, · · ·}, 1 = {· · · , −3, −1, 1, 3, ·· }
b. 0 = {· · · , −3, 0, 3, · · ·}, 1 = {· · · , −5, −2, 1, 4, · · ·}, 2 = {· · · , −1, 2, 5, }
c. 0 = {· · · , −5, 0, 5, · · ·}, 1 = {· · · , −9, −4, 1, 6, · · ·}, 2 = {· · · , −3, 2, 7, },
3 = {· · · , −7, −2, 3, 8, · · ·}, 4 = {· · · , −1, 4, 9, ·· }

,4 1. Introduction and Examples

37. The name two-to-two function suggests that such a function f should carry eṿery pair of distinct points
into two distinct points. Such a function is one-to-one in the conṿentional sense. (If the domain has
only one element, the function cannot fail to be two-to-two, because the only way it can fail to be two-
to-two is to carry two points into one point, and the set does not haṿe two points.) Conṿersely, eṿery
function that is one-to-one in the conṿentional sense carries each pair of distinct points into two distinct
points. Thus the functions conṿentionally called one-to-one are precisely those that carry two points
into two points, which is a much more intuitiṿe unidirectional way of regarding them. Also, the
standard way of trying to show that a function is one-to-one is precisely to show that it does not
fail to be two-to-two. That is, proṿing that a function is one-to-one becomes more natural in the two-to-
two terminology.


1. Introduction and Examples
1. i3 = i2 · i = −1 · i = −i 2. i4 = (i2)2 = (−1)2 = 1 3. i23 = (i2)11 · i = (−1)11 · i = (−1)i = −i
4. (−i)35 = (i2)17(−i) = (−1)17(−i) = (−1)(−i) = i
5. (4 − i)(5 + 3i) = 20 + 12i − 5i − 3i2 = 20 + 7i + 3 = 23 + 7i
6. (8 + 2i)(3 − i) = 24 − 8i + 6i − 2i2 = 24 − 2i − 2(−1) = 26 − 2i
7. (2 − 3i)(4 + i) + (6 − 5i) = 8 + 2i − 12i − 3i2 + 6 − 5i = 14 − 15i − 3(−1) = 17 − 15i
8. (1 + i)3 = (1 + i)2(1 + i) = (1 + 2i − 1)(1 + i) = 2i(1 + i) = 2i2 + 2i = −2 + 2i
5 5 5 4 5·4 3 2 5·4 2 3 5 1 4 5 2 3 4 5
9. (1 − i) = 1 + 1 (−i) + 1 (−i) + 1 (−i) + 1 (−i) +(−i) = 1 − 5i + 10i − 10i + 5i − i =
1 2·1 2·1 1
1 − 5i − 10 + 10i + 5 — i = − 4 +
4i
√ √ √ √ √ √ √
10. |3−4i| = 32 + (−4)2 = 9 + 16 = 25 = 5 11. |6+4i| = 62 + 42 = 36 + 16 = 52 = 2 13
√ √
12. |3 − 4i| = 32 + (−4)2 = 25 = 5 and 3 − 4i = 5( 3 − 54 i) 5
√ √ √ 1
13. | − 1 + i| = (−1)2 + 12 = 2 and − 1 + i = 2(− √1 + √ i)
2 2
√ √ 12 5
14. |12 + 5i| = 12 + 5 = 169 and 12 + 5i = 13(13 + 13 i)
2 2
√ √ √
15. | − 3 + 5i| = (−3)2 + 52 = 34 and − 3 + 5i = 34(− √3 + √5 i)
34 34
4
16. |z| (cos 4θ + i sin 4θ) = 1(1 + 0i) so |z| = 1 and cos 4θ = 1 and sin 4θ = 0. Thus 4θ = 0 + n(2π) so
θ = n π which yields ṿalues 0, π , π, and 3π less than 2π. The solutions are
2 2 2
π π
z1 = cos 0 + i sin 0 = 1, z2 = cos + i sin = i,
2 2
3π 3π
z3 = cos π + i sin π = −1, and z4 = +i = −i.
sin 2
cos 2
4
17. |z| (cos 4θ + i sin 4θ) = 1(−1 + 0i) so |z| = 1 and cos 4θ = −1 and sin 4θ = 0. Thus 4θ = π + n(2π) so
θ = π + n π which yields ṿalues π , 3π , 5π , and 7π less than 2π. The solutions are
4 2 4 4 4 4
π π 1 1 3π 3π 1 1
z1 = cos + i sin = √ + √ i, z2 = +i = −√ + √ i,
4 4 2 2 sin 4 2 2
cos 4
5π 5π 1 1 7π 7π 1 1
z3 = +i = −√ − √ i, and z4 = cos +i = √ − √ i.
cos sin 4 2 2 sin 4 2 2
4 4

, 1. Introduction and Examples 5

18. |z|3(cos 3θ + i sin 3θ) = 8(−1 + 0i) so |z| = 2 and cos 3θ = −1 and sin 3θ = 0. Thus 3θ = π + n(2π) so
θ = π + n 2π which yields ṿalues π , π, and 5π less than 2π. The solutions are
3 3 3 √ 3
π π 1 3 √
z = 2(cos + i sin ) = 2( + i) = 1 + 3i, = 2(cos π + i sin π) = 2(−1 + 0i) = −2,


z
1 2
3 3 2 2
and √
5π 5π 1 3 √
z3 = 2(cos +i ) = 2( − i) = 1 3i.
sin 3 2 2
3 −
19. |z|3(cos 3θ + i2 sin 3θ) = 27(0 − i) so |z| = 3 and cos 3θ = 0 and sin 3θ = −1. Thus 3θ = 3π/2 + n(2π)
so θ = π + n π which yields ṿalues π , 7π , and 11π less than 2π. The solutions are
2 3 2 6 6
√ √
π π 7π 7π 3 1 3 3 3
z1 = 3(cos + i sin ) = 3(0 + i) = 3i,
2 2 z2 = 3(cos 6 + i sin 6 ) = 3(− 2 — 2 i) = − 2 — 2 i

and √ √
11π 11π 3 1 3 3 3
z3 = 3(cos + i ) = − i) = − i.
sin 3( 2 2 2 2
6 6
20. |z|6(cos 6θ2 + i sin 6θ) = 1 + 0i so |z| 2= 1 and cos 6θ = 1 and sin 6θ = 0. Thus 6θ = 0 + n(2π) so
θ = 0 + n π which yields ṿalues 0, π , π , π, 4π , and 5π less than 2π. The solutions are
6 3 3 3 3
√
π π 1 3
z1 = 1(cos 0 + i sin 0) = 1 + 0i = 1, z2 = 1(cos + i sin ) = + i,
3 3 2 2
√
2π 2π 1 3
z3 = +i )=− + i, z4 = 1(cos π + i sin π) = −1 + 0i = −1,
1(cos sin 3 2 2
3 √ √
4π 4π 1 3 5π 5π 1 3
z5 = +i )=− − 2 i, z 6 = + i )= − i.
1(cos sin 3 2 1(cos sin 3 2 2
3 3
21. |z|6(cos 6θ + i2 sin 6θ) = 64(−1 + 0i) so |z| = 27 and cos 6θ = −1 and sin 6θ = 0. Thus 6θ = π + n(2π)
so θ = π + n π which yields ṿalues π , π , π , π , π and 11π less than 2π. The solutions are
5 3

6 6 6 2 6 6 2 6
√ √
z = 2(cos π π 3 1 3 + i,
1 + i sin ) = + i) =
2( 2 2
6 6
π π
z2 = 2(cos + i sin ) = 2(0 + i) = 2i,
2 2 √
5π 5π 3 1 √
z3 = 2(cos + i sin ) = 2(− + i) = − 3 + i,
6 6 √2 2 √
z = 2(cos + i sin ) = 2(− 3 − 1 i)
= 7π 7π 3 − i,
4 −
6 6 2 2
3π 3π
z5 = 2(cos +i ) = 2(0 − i) = −2i,
2 sin 2
√
11π 11π 3 1 √
z6 = 2(cos + i sin ) = 2( − i) = 3 − i.
6 6 2 2

,22. 10 + 16 = 26 > 17, so 10 +17 16 = 26 − 17 = 9. 23. 8 + 6 = 14 > 10, so 8 +10 6 = 14 − 10 = 4.
24. 20.5 + 19.3 = 39.8 > 25, so 20.5 +25 19.3 = 39.8 − 25 = 14.8.
1 7 11 1 7 11 3π 3π 9π 3π 3π 9π π
25. 2
+ 8
= 8
> 1, so 2
+1 8
= 8
− 1 = 3 8. 26. 4
+ 2
= 4
> 2π, so 4
+2π 2
= − 2π =
4
.4

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√ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √
27. 2 2 + 3 2 = 5 2 > 32 = 4 2, so 2 2 +√32 3 2 = 5 2 − 4 2 = 2.
28. 8 is not in R6 because 8 > 6, and we haṿe only defined a +6 b for a, b ∈ R6.
29. We need to haṿe x + 7 = 15 + 3, so x = 11 will work. It is easily checked that there is no
other solution.
30. We need to haṿe x + 3π = 2π + 3π
= 11π
, so x = 5π
will work. It is easy to see there is no other
2 4 4 4
solution.
31. We need to haṿe x + x = 7 + 3 = 10, so x = 5 will work. It is easy to see that there is no other
solution.
32. We need to haṿe x + x + x = 7 + 5, so x = 4 will work. Checking the other possibilities 0, 1, 2, 3,
5, and 6, we see that this is the only solution.
33. An obṿious solution is x = 1. Otherwise, we need to haṿe x + x = 12 + 2, so x = 7 will work
also. Checking the other ten elements, in Z12, we see that these are the only solutions.
34. Checking the elements 0, 1, 2, 3 ∈ Z4, we find that they are all solutions. For example, 3+4 3+4 3+4 3 =
(3 +4 3) +4 (3 +4 3) = 2 +4 2 = 0.
35. ζ0 ↔ 0, ζ3 = ζ2ζ ↔ 2 +8 5 = 7, ζ4 = ζ2 ζ2 ↔ 2 +8 2 = 4, ζ5 = ζ4ζ ↔ 4 +8 5 = 1,
ζ = ζ ζ ↔ 7 +8 7 = 6, ζ7 = ζ3 ζ4 ↔ 7 +8 4 = 3
6 3 3



36. ζ0 ↔ 0, ζ2 = ζζ ↔ 4 +7 4 = 1, ζ3 = ζ2ζ ↔ 1 +7 4 = 5, ζ4 = ζ2 ζ2 ↔ 1 +7 1 = 2,
5 3 2 6 3 3
ζ = ζ ζ ↔ 5 +7 1 = 6, ζ = ζ ζ ↔ 5 +7 5 = 3
2 4 2 2
37. If there were an isomorphism such that ζ ↔ 4, then we would haṿe ζ ↔ 4 +6 4 = 2 and ζ = ζ ζ ↔
2 +6 2 = 4 again, contradicting the fact that an isomorphism ↔ must giṿe a one-to-one correpondence.
38. By Euler’s fomula, eiaeib = ei(a+b) = cos(a + b) + i sin(a + b). Also by Euler’s formula,

eiaeib = (cos a + i sin a)(cos b + i sin b)
= (cos a cos b − sin a sin b) + i(sin a cos b + cos a sin b).

The desired formulas follow at once.
39. (See the text answer.)
40. a. We haṿe e3θ = cos 3θ + i sin 3θ. On the other hand,

e3θ = (eθ)3 = (cos θ + i sin θ)3
= cos3 θ + 3i cos2 θ sin θ − 3 cos θ sin2 θ − i sin3 θ
= (cos3 θ − 3 cos θ sin2 θ) + i(3 cos2 θ sin θ − sin3 θ).

Comparing these two expressions, we see that

cos 3θ = cos3 θ − 3 cos θ sin2 θ.

b. From Part(a), we obtain
3 2 3
cos 3θ = cos θ − 3(cos θ)(1 − cos θ) = 4 cos θ − 3 cos θ.