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Exercise 14.1.6
By Example 8.5.5, is not solvable by radicals over . Give a new proof of this fact using the previous exercise together with the irreducibility of f and part (b) of Exercise 6 from Section 6.4.
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Proof. The given polynomial has prime degree 5 and only three real roots, according to part (b) of Exercise 6.4.6. Since has more than one but less than 5 real roots, it is not solvable by radicals by Exercise 14.1.5. □