Electronics Fundamentals: Circuits, Devices & Applications
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Author: Thomas L. Floyd, David Buchla
Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Chapter 5, Problem 6ST
If one of the resistors in a parallel circuit is removed, the total resistance
- Decreases by the value of the removed resistor
- increases
- increases
- doubles
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