Practice

At the Memphis levee borrow area the water table is 3 m below the ground surface. The soil above it is moist, with $\gamma = 16$ kN/m³; below it the soil is saturated, with $\gamma_{sat} = 19.5$ kN/m³. The vertical effective stress at point A, 3.5 m below the water table, is most nearly:

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