The joists of a floor in a warehouse are to be selected
using square timber beams made of oak. If each beam is to be
designed to carry 90 lb>ft over a simply supported span of
25 ft, determine the dimension a of its square cross section to
the nearest 1
4 in. The allowable bending stress is s allow = 4.5 ksi
and the allowable shear stress is t allow = 125 psi.