How to use Cayley's theorem to prove the following?

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How to prove the underlined part in this example using the Cayley's Theorem? Thanks for help. I have no idea on it. enter image description here enter image description here

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The underlined part follows directly from Cauchy's Theorem (not Cayley's theorem, which is about embedding into a symmetric group):

Proving Cauchy's theorem (group theory)

For $p=5$ and $p\mid | G|$, Cauchy's Theorem gives an element of order $p=5$ in $G$.

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As @DietrichBurde noted in their answer and a comment below, it's really Cauchy's theorem that matters here. Every element must have an order dividing $5$, i.e. equal to $1$ or $5$. But they can't all be of order $1$.