QUESTION
A young coworker is studying for the PE exam and asked me for help with this problem. I did what I thought was correct in a few minutes only to find out my answer was not correct. Just curious what everyone else gets for an answer.
I believe it was a poorly presented question for an exam. It would have been better if they had just said “DL” and left the arrows off. The arrow direction would be correct for a wind load but dead load is a gravity load, always acting down.
