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Pick up the correct statement from the following:
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A. When water table is above the base of a footing, the dry weight m should be used for soil below water table
B. When water table is located somewhat below the base of a footing, the elastic wedge is partly of moist soil and partly of submerged soil, and a suitable reduction factor is used
C. When water table is just at the base of the footing, no reduction factor is used
D. None of these.

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When water table is located somewhat below the base of a footing, the elastic wedge is partly of moist soil and partly of submerged soil, and a suitable reduction factor is used

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2. A compacted soil sample using 10% moisture content has a weight of 200 g and mass unit weight of 2.0 g/cm³. If the specific gravity of soil particles and water are 2.7 and 1.0, the degree of saturation of the soil is
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A. 11.1%
B. 55.6%
C. 69.6%
D. none of these.

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3. Back fill with a sloping surface exerts a total active pressure P_a on the wall of height H and acts at
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A. H/4 above the base parallel to base
B. H/2 above the base parallel to base
C. H/3 above the base parallel to base
D. H/5 above the base parallel to base.

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4. Rankine's theory of active earth pressure assumes
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A. soil mass is homogeneous, dry and cohesionless
B. ground surface is a plane which may be horizontal or inclined
C. back of the wall is vertical and smooth
D. wall yields about the base
E. all the above.

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7. The ratio of the weight of given volume of soil solids to the weight of an equal volume of distilled water at the given temperature, is known
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A. porosity
B. specific gravity
C. void ratio
D. water content.

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10. A flow line makes angles ?₁ and ?₂ with the normal to the interface of the soils having permeabilities k₁, k₂ before and after deflection. According to the law of deflection of the flow lines at the interface of the dissimilar soils
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D.