{"id":159176,"date":"2023-09-14T11:44:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T06:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=159176"},"modified":"2023-09-14T11:44:45","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T06:14:45","slug":"in-india-for-1-0-cum-of-m-20-grade-concrete-the-number-of-cement-bags-required-is_______","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/in-india-for-1-0-cum-of-m-20-grade-concrete-the-number-of-cement-bags-required-is_______\/","title":{"rendered":"In India, for 1.0 cum of M-20 grade concrete, the number of cement bags required is_______"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Q. In India, for 1.0 cum of M-20 grade concrete, the number of cement bags required is____________(<em>up to two decimal places<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ans: 5 to 9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sol:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Composition of M20 grade of concrete is 1:1.5:3 (Cement: Sand : Aggregate) (Total 5.5) i.e. 5.5-unit volume of M20 grade of concrete contains 1-unit volume of cement.<br>Thus, 1 cu.m. Volume of M20 grade of concrete contains 0.19 cu.m, volume of cement. Wet concrete hardens after some time. Generally, volume of d-y Concrete = 1.54 to 1.57 times Volume of wet concrete<br>Thus, for 1 cu.m. Volume of wet M20 grade of concrete contains, 0.19 \u00d7 1.5 = 0.285 cu.m, volume of cement. 1 cu.m. of cement = 1440 kg.<br>Thus, 0.285 cu.m, of cement = 410 kg. The standard weight of each cement bag = 50 kg.<br>Thus, for 410 kg of cement, the number of 50 kg cement bags required = 410 50 = 8.208= 8 bags<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q. In India, for 1.0 cum of M-20 grade concrete, the number of cement bags required is____________(up to two decimal places). Ans: 5 to 9 Sol: Composition of M20 grade of concrete is 1:1.5:3 (Cement: Sand : Aggregate) (Total 5.5) i.e. 5.5-unit volume of M20 grade of concrete contains 1-unit volume of cement.Thus, 1 cu.m. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":159177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5141],"tags":[5140],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-159176","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\/159176","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=159176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159178,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159176\/revisions\/159178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159176"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=159176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}