How many subgroups of order 17 does $S_{17}$ have?

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How many subgroups of order 17 does $S_{17}$ have ?

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An order 17 group is of prime order, hence cyclic and each element in it is a generator and of order 17.
In $S_{17}$ group we can get an order 17 element only through a 17-cycle.

Number of elements of order 17 in $S_{17}$ is $\frac{17!}{17} = 16!$.

Now given that two sylow 17 subgroups have only a trivial intersection. We can conclude that 16 of these elements fall into each sylow 17 subgroup.

Hence the number of sylow 17 subgroups would be $\frac{16!}{16} = 15!$

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Your answer looks correct.

It is true that there are $16!$ elements of order $17$, but if this is a homework question a marker might want you to elaborate on why that is.

An alternative (but not necessarily better) proof is as follows:

Consider the set of subgroups of $S_{17}$ of order $17$. As you noted, these subgroups must be cyclic. In particular they must be transitive.

For each subgroup $G$ fix $g\in G$ with $g(1)=2$. $g$ is the only such element of $G$ and generates $G$ so uniquely defines $G$.

Write $g=(1,2,x_3,\ldots,x_{17})$. There are $15!$ choices for the $x_i$ so $15!$ such subgroups.