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Putnam 1968 B5

  • Session B

Let pp be a prime number. Let JJ be the set of all 2×22 \times 2 matrices [abcd]\begin{bmatrix} a & b \\ c & d \end{bmatrix} whose entries are chosen from {0,1,2,…,p−1}\{0, 1, 2, \dots, p-1\} and satisfy the conditions a+d≡1(modp)a+d \equiv 1 \pmod{p} and ad−bc≡0(modp)ad-bc \equiv 0 \pmod{p}. Determine how many members JJ has.

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