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A deep cut of 7 m has to be made in a clay with unit weight 16 kN/m³ and a cohesion of 25 kN/m². What will be the factor of safety if one has to have a slope angle of 30° ? Stability number is given to be 0.178 (from Taylor's chart) for a depth factor of 3.

0.80

1.1

1.25

1.0

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