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Question 46

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A combined trapezoidal footing of length

supports two identical square columns (

and

) of size 0.5 m × 0.5 m, as shown in the figure
Diagram for Civil Engineering question 46

. The columns

and

carry loads of 200 kN and 150 kN, respectively. If the stress beneath the footing is uniform, the length of the combined footing

(in m, round off to two decimal places) is

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