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To ensure that supporting area of an offset footing of a boundary wall is fully compressive, the C.G. of load must act

at the centre of the base
within the middle third of the base
within the middle fifth of the base
neither (a), (b) nor (c).

Correct Answer: within the middle third of the base

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