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A square footing of 4m side is placed at 1m depth in a sand deposit. The dry unit weight ( γ ) of sand is 15kN/m3. This footing has an ultimate bearing capacity of 600kPa. Consider the depth factors; dq=dγ=1.0 and the bearing capacity factor: Nγ=18. This footing is placed at a depth of 2m in the same soil deposit. For a factor of safety of 3.0 per Terzaghi's theory, the safe bearing capacity (in kPa ) of this footing would be

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