Fundamentals of Electric Circuits
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ISBN: 9780078028229
Author: Charles K Alexander, Matthew Sadiku
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 2, Problem 77CP
Suppose your circuit laboratory has the following standard commercially available resistors in large quantities:
Using series and parallel combinations and a minimum number of available resistors, how would you obtain the following resistances for an electronic circuit design?
- (a) 5 Ω
- (b) 311.80 Ω
- (c) 40 kΩ
- (d) 52.32 kΩ
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