Question: Select the correct option ( s ) from the following and justify your choice. Any response without justification will not be considered. i . A

Select the correct option(s) from the following and justify your choice. Any response without justification will not be considered.
i. A fine grained soil with which of the following inter granular arrangements is likely to exhibit the greatest sensitivity
A. aggregated
B. aggregated
C. dispersed
[5] deflocculated flocculated deflocculated
D. dispersed flocculated
ii. Which of the following is an example of a 1:1 clay mineral
Q. feldspar
B. illite
C. kaolinite
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iii. For a sample of cohesionless saturated sand sample that failed under 300 kPa deviator stress and 400 kPa cell pressure in a consolidated drained triaxial test, the shear strength parameters would be
A.'~~30 and c'~~0
b.'~~37 and c'~~0
C.U~~0 and cU~~300kPa
D.U~~0 and cU~~150kPa
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iv. If the diameter of the sand sample at the end of consolidation was 38 mm in the test of the preceding question, sample diameter at failure is likely to
A. exceed 38 mm
B. be less than 38 mm
[5]
C. remain equal to 38 mm
D. could be larger than, equal to or smaller than 38 mm depending on conditions not clarified above
Select the correct option ( s ) from the

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