Mark each of the following true or false. ___ a. Every free abelian group is torsion free.
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Mark each of the following true or false.
___ a. Every free abelian group is torsion free.
___ b. Every finitely generated torsion-free abelian group is a free abelian group.
___ c. There exists a free abelian group of every positive integer rank.
___ d. A finitely generated abelian group is free abelian if its Betti number equals the number of elements in some generating set.
___ e. If X generates a free abelian group G and X ⊆ Y ⊆ G, then Y generates G.
___ f. If X is a basis for a free abelian group G and X ⊆ Y ⊆ G, then Y is a basis for G.
___ g. Every nonzero free abelian group has an infinite number of bases.
___ h. Every free abelian group of rank at least 2 has an infinite number of bases.
___ i. If K is a nonzero subgroup of a finitely generated free abelian group, then K is free abelian.
___ j. If K is a nonzero subgroup of a finitely generated free abelian group, then G/K is free abelian.
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