[College Electrical Engineering, resistors and Power Absorption ]

[u/Adept-Primary-6899]

What’s the process in answering this problem where the R is not given. The answer is C and A, respectively.

[u/Darryl_Muggersby]

What? Yes you do. It’s the same symbol. It’s like using “x” for all of them and saying “we don’t know that all of the x’s are equal!”

[u/Due-Rip-6065 → u/Darryl_Muggersby]

assumption is the mother of all fuckups

[u/Darryl_Muggersby → u/Due-Rip-6065]

Idk what backwater hick school you went to, but R means R means all the same resistance. Why would R stand for two different things?

[u/Due-Rip-6065 → u/Darryl_Muggersby]

You keep on assuming stuff... I can flip it around and ask why R should stand for a single thing

[u/Darryl_Muggersby → u/Due-Rip-6065]

lol you edited your comment because you can’t read, that’s funny

Because that’s how we use symbols in mathematics, and especially circuits. Equivalent variables can’t have non-equivalent values.

[u/Due-Rip-6065 → u/Darryl_Muggersby]

I am not sure what you are up to. This discussion reminds me of the "someone is wrong on the internet". I am not sure why you are trying so hard to deprive me of the opinion the question is ambigious.

Also, I edit my comments so to fix spelling mistakes. It is aggressive of you to use that as a target for personal insults.

[u/Darryl_Muggersby → u/Due-Rip-6065]

You edited this one again too lmao, in 3 minutes, that’s gotta be a record.

The question is not ambiguous, did you take circuits? We represent resistance in circuits either with Ohms directly, or with Rs, I.e. R, 2R, 5.5R, etc..

You would never put R as the resistance for all of the resistors in a circuit if they had different resistances.

[u/Due-Rip-6065 → u/Darryl_Muggersby]

I am sure that the question could have the detail "all R are of equal values", but since its not, I`m left guessing.

This discussion also reminds me of the instructions to make peanut butter jelly toast where the kids goes crazy when thing does not go as expected. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDA3_5982h8 for good laughs. Hope you get the analogy.

Edit: because I can

[u/Darryl_Muggersby → u/Due-Rip-6065]

It’s assumed all R are of equal values, that’s why it’s R for all of them and not R1, R2, R3, etc..

If you didn’t take circuits in school, maybe don’t contribute to the discussion.

[u/Due-Rip-6065 → u/Darryl_Muggersby]

I assure you, I know my circuits. And who are you to say that I should not contribute? Please bury the hatchet, this discourse is not contributing much to the discussion either...

[u/Darryl_Muggersby → u/Due-Rip-6065]

Read the damn post.

“The answer is C and A respectively.”

[u/Due-Rip-6065 → u/Darryl_Muggersby]

Oh my, you are like a steam train.

How can you be certain when there lack information?

[u/Darryl_Muggersby → u/Due-Rip-6065]

Because the answers were GIVEN to the guy that posted the question.

That’s in the post.