Answer to Question #177346 in Civil and Environmental Engineering for Gift

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the difference in level between the top and bottom of a railway embankment was found to be 15.216m .the length of the embankment we as measured along its surface as 25.214m using a steel tape under a pull of 25n at a temperature of 10 degree celsius .if the tape was standardized on the flat at 20 degree celsius under a pull of 49 North ,what is the embankment gradient ? the cross sectional area of the tape is 6.5 millimeters squared ,e =20.8×10 to the power 4 meter newton per meter squared and a =1.1×10 power - 5 pet cereus.

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