Question on Comaximal Ideals There's a small detail in a proof of the Chinese Remainder Theorem for modules I don't understand when it comes to showing the normally constructed homomorphism is a surjection.

Suppose $R$ is a commutative unital ring, with $I_1,\dots,I_k$ pairwise comaximal ideals. How then for any $j$ can I find $r\in R$ such that $r\equiv 1\pmod{I_j}$ but $r\equiv 0\pmod{I_i}$ for $i\neq j$? 

Thank you!
 A: I suppose you mean by comaximal $I_i+I_j=R$ if $i\ne j$. With loss of generalities, we can take $j=1$. For any $i\ne 1$, we have
$$1=\alpha_{i}+\beta_{i}, \quad \alpha_{i}\in I_1, \beta_{i}\in I_i.$$
Taking the product of these equalities we get 
$$1=\alpha'+\beta_2\beta_3...\beta_k, \quad \alpha'\in I_1. $$ 
Then $r:=1-\alpha'$ does the trick.
A: As far as existence, the idea is to use comaximality:
For example, if $k=2$, then you have $I_1 + I_2 = (1)$, so there exist $a\in I_1$ and $b\in I_2$ such that $a+b=1$. Taking $r=b$ we have $r=b\equiv b+a = 1\pmod{I_1}$, and $r=b\equiv 0\pmod{I_2}$.
For larger $k$, note that 
$$R = R^{k-1} = (I_1+I_2)(I_1+I_3)\cdots(I_1+I_{k-1}) \subseteq I_1 + I_2\cdots I_k\subseteq I_1 + I_j = R$$
for any $j\neq 1$; hence $I_1$ and $I_2\cdots I_k$ are comaximal. Therefore, $I_1 + I_2\cdots I_k = (1)$, so you can find $a\in I_1$ and $b\in I_2\cdots I_k$ such that $a+b=1$. Take $r=b$, and then $b\in I_1\cdots I_k\subseteq I_j$ for each $j\neq 1$, and there's your $r$. Obviously, you can replace $1$ with an arbitrary $j$.
