{"id":153561,"date":"2023-07-29T14:52:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T09:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=153561"},"modified":"2023-07-29T14:52:08","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T09:22:08","slug":"a-box-measuring-50-cm-x-50-cm-x-50-cm-is-filled-to-the-top-with-dry-coarse-aggregate-of-mass-187-5-kg-the-water-absorption-and-specific-gravity-of-the-aggregate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/a-box-measuring-50-cm-x-50-cm-x-50-cm-is-filled-to-the-top-with-dry-coarse-aggregate-of-mass-187-5-kg-the-water-absorption-and-specific-gravity-of-the-aggregate\/","title":{"rendered":"A box measuring 50 cm \u00d7 50 cm \u00d7 50 cm is filled to the top with dry coarse aggregate of mass 187.5 kg. The water absorption and specific gravity of the aggregate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Q. A box measuring 50 <em>cm <\/em>\u00d7 50 <em>cm <\/em>\u00d7 50 <em>cm <\/em>is filled to the top with dry coarse aggregate of mass 187.5 <em>kg<\/em>. The water absorption and specific gravity of the aggregate are 0.5% and 2.5, respectively. The maximum quantity of water (in <em>kg, round off to 2 decimal places<\/em>) required to fill the box completely is________ \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Solution:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"301\" height=\"114\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/dwdwdw-transformed.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-153563\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-201.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-153565\" width=\"353\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-201.png 572w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-201-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 353px) 100vw, 353px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q. A box measuring 50 cm \u00d7 50 cm \u00d7 50 cm is filled to the top with dry coarse aggregate of mass 187.5 kg. The water absorption and specific gravity of the aggregate are 0.5% and 2.5, respectively. The maximum quantity of water (in kg, round off to 2 decimal places) required to fill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":153566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5141],"tags":[5140],"class_list":["post-153561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gate","tag-gate-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153567,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153561\/revisions\/153567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}