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Row Reduction & Rank · Hard problem

A materials lab takes four strain measurements of three unknown stresses p,q,rp,q,r, with coefficient rows forming

M=(12−13−125−45−46−6).M=\begin{pmatrix}1&2&-1\\3&-1&2\\5&-4&5\\-4&6&-6\end{pmatrix}.

The lab wants to know how much genuinely independent information these four measurements actually provide. Find that number (the number of independent measurements among the four).