Weird GRE mistake

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According to the answer key, the correct answer is (a).... This is obviously a mistake, right? If a square matrix is invertible, then it has full rank.

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The columns can be pairwise independent without being independent as a set.

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$$ \begin{bmatrix} 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 \\ 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 1 \\ 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 1 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 1 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \end{bmatrix} $$