Question: You take a bulk sample from a borrow pit to your lab. Before carrying out a particular test, you need to bring the material to

You take a bulk sample from a borrow pit to your lab. Before carrying out a particular test, you
need to bring the material to exactly 9.0% target water content. You weight the entire sample at its
existing water content and find its total mass is 10,152 g. You take a representative subsample of
mass 146.3 g and after drying in the oven measure a dry mass of 138.9 g. How much water do you
need to add to bring the bulk sample to the target water content? (Note: please assume that the
oven-dried representative subsample is not returned to the larger bulk sample before adding the
required amount of water to reach the 9.0% target water content).

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