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Conjugacy and the Class Equation · Medium problem

A nonabelian group has order 1616 and ∣Z(G)∣=2|Z(G)|=2. Every noncentral conjugacy class has the same size kk, and by the pp-group theorem kk must itself be a power of 22 greater than 11. How many noncentral conjugacy classes does GG have?