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Vector Spaces & Bases · Superchallenge problem

A 4×44\times 4 real matrix is called magic if its four row sums, four column sums and two main-diagonal sums are all equal to one common value (which may be any real number). The magic matrices form a subspace of M4(R)M_4(\mathbb{R}). What is its dimension?