Question: A fine - grained soil sample has 2 0 0 gr of mass. After drying in the oven, the mass of this sample reduces by

A fine-grained soil sample has 200 gr of mass. After drying in the oven, the mass of this sample reduces by 40 gr . What will be the value of tan() in the below figure? The below figure shows the Atterberg limit test for this sample. The water density is 1grcm3.
Hint 1: It can be proved that tan() is equal to the mass of solid over the water density. (i.e.tan()=(mass of solid/water density).
Hint 2: Use the equation in hint 1 and simply calculate the answer.
V is the soil volume
a.40cm3
b.160cm3
c.240cm3
d.200cm3
A fine - grained soil sample has 2 0 0 gr of

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