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Probability in $GL_2(F_q)$

My question may be not interesting or easy to answer ! but I am really not familiar with proba.
Let $p$ be an odd prime number. and let $r\geq1$ an integer. choose an element $A\in\mathrm{GL}_2(\mathbb{Z}/p^{r+1}\mathbb{Z})$
What is the probability for which $Tr(A)\equiv p^{r}\pmod{p^{r+1}}$ and $Tr(A)\not\equiv 0\pmod{p^{r+1}}$ ?
Thanks for any comments.

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