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Row Reduction & Rank · Challenge problem

Each entry of a 2×22\times 2 matrix (abcd)\begin{pmatrix} a & b \\ c & d \end{pmatrix} is chosen from 1,2,…,61, 2, \ldots, 6 (as if by four dice). For how many of the 64=12966^4 = 1296 matrices is the rank equal to 11?