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Orthogonality & Least Squares · Medium problem

Sensor fusion combines three direction readings into a 5×35\times3 matrix AA whose columns are (1,1,0,0,0)(1,1,0,0,0), (0,1,1,0,0)(0,1,1,0,0), and (1,2,1,0,0)(1,2,1,0,0), and builds the orthogonal projection matrix PP onto the column space of AA. Find tr⁡(P)\operatorname{tr}(P), the effective number of independent directions actually captured.