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Row Reduction & Rank · Medium problem

Three instruments measure combinations of two unknown quantities p,q,rp,q,r: instrument 1 reads p+2q−rp+2q-r, instrument 2 reads 2p−q+3r2p-q+3r, and instrument 3 reads 5p+kq+r5p+kq+r. If instrument 3's reading always equals some fixed combination of instruments 1 and 2's readings (for every p,q,rp,q,r), it adds no new information. Find the value of kk for which that happens.