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I have an exercise. I cannot solve. Please help me to solve it:

Prove that any periodic abelian group is the direct sum of its maximal $p$-subgroups.

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    Hint: Take an element, and (assuming you write the Abelian group additively), write it a sum of elements of prime power order.2011-08-25

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