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A vertical smooth rigid retaining wall is supporting horizontal ground with dry cohesionless backfill having a friction angle of $30^{\circ}$. The inclinations of failure planes with respect to the major principal plane for Rankine's active and passive earth pressure conditions, respectively, are

  1. $30^{\circ}$ and $30^{\circ}$
  2. $60^{\circ}$ and $60^{\circ}$
  3. $30^{\circ}$ and $60^{\circ}$
  4. $60^{\circ}$ and $30^{\circ}$
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