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Two different soil types (Soil 1 and Soil 2) are used as backfill behind a retaining wall as shown in the figure, where γ_t is total unit weight, and c' and ϕ' are effective cohesion and effective angle of
shearing resistance. The resultant active earth force per unit length (in kN/m) acting on the wall is:

31.7
35.2
51.8
57.0

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