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Consider the space of all 3×33 \times 3 matrices M3(R)M_3(\mathbb{R}). Let SS be the subset of matrices AA such that AA is idempotent (A2=AA^2 = A) and tr(A)=1\text{tr}(A) = 1. What is the dimension of the variety of such matrices?