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Trapezoidal load is encountered in earth fills.

(a) True

(b) False

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To explain: Trapezoidal loadings are quite commonly encountered in earth fills, embankments, highways, rail road, earth dams, etc. The trapezoidal loadings can be split into a triangular loading minus another triangular loading of smaller magnitude.

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