Consider the matrices $E_{ij}$, having coefficients always vanishing except for coefficient at row $i$ and column $j$ which has value equal to $1$.
$$\mathcal{E}=(E_{1,1}, \dots , E_{1,n},E_{2,1} \dots, E_{2,n},\dots,E_{n,1}, \dots, E_{n,n})$$ is a basis of $M_n(K)$.
You'll verify that for $1 \le i \le n , 1 \le j \le n$, you have $$T(E_{i,j})=\sum_{k=1}^n A_{k,i} E_{k,j}.$$ This is no more no less the way to get the matrix of $T$ in the basis $\mathcal{E}$ where $A=(A_{i,j})$.
To get (1), you can now apply the definition of the trace. The diagonal of the matrix of $T$ in the basis $\mathcal{E}$ is $$(A_{1,1},A_{1,1}, \dots,A_{1,1},A_{2,2},\dots,A_{2,2}, \dots, A_{n,n},\dots, A_{n,n})$$ proving that $\text{tr}(T)=n \sum_{i=1}^n A_{i,i}=n \text{tr}(A)$.
Obviously (2) is conflicting with (1)...
Regarding (3), what is the kernel of $T$? A matrix $X$ is in the kernel of $T$ if and only if $$T(X)=AX=0$$ which means that $A^{-1} A X=X=0$ as $A$ is supposed to be invertible. That means that $T$ is a non-singular linear map of $M_n(K)$ which is of dimension $n^2$. Hence $\text{rank}(T)=n^2$.