Abstract algebra true or false answer check

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Sorry about the giant picture file, but typing up this many questions on Latex would take forever. My attempts are below, I am fairly sure 16+ are right

My answers: -1T- -2T- -3F- -4F- -5T- -6F- -7F- -8F- -9T- -10T- -11F - order m-1 right?- -12F- -13T- -14F- -15T- -16T- -17F- -18F- -19T- -20T-\ enter image description here

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I'm fairly sure the number you have right is $14$ (maybe $\pm 1$).

Since it's a true/false, I can't in good faith just tell you which ones you got wrong because you're liable to just change the answer. It's nothing personal, it's just a thing. So I will tell you $9$ of the $14$ which you got right, so you only have to review about half of them.

Definitely correct: $$ 1\qquad 2\qquad 8\qquad 9 \qquad 11^*\qquad 13 \qquad 14\qquad 15\qquad 20$$

Possibly incorrect (5+, probably 6) $$ 3-7\qquad 10\qquad 12\qquad 16-19 $$

I marked $11$ because you asked a more specific question about it. You wrote the right answer, but the reason you gave is not correct. I think you were thinking of Fermat's little theorem, but you have to be careful: the ambient group in that context that is $(\Bbb Z/p, *)$, which has only $p-1$ elements; that's why the $p-1$ is showing up there.