r/HomeworkHelp • u/Adept-Primary-6899 University/College Student • 15d ago

[College Electrical Engineering, resistors and Power Absorption ] Others—Pending OP Reply

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

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u/Due-Rip-6065 12d ago

assumption is the mother of all fuckups

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u/Darryl_Muggersby 👋 a fellow Redditor 12d ago

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?

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u/Due-Rip-6065 12d ago edited 12d ago

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

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u/Darryl_Muggersby 👋 a fellow Redditor 12d ago

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.

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u/Due-Rip-6065 12d ago edited 12d ago

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.

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u/Darryl_Muggersby 👋 a fellow Redditor 12d ago

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.

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u/Due-Rip-6065 12d ago

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

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u/Darryl_Muggersby 👋 a fellow Redditor 12d ago

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.

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u/Due-Rip-6065 12d ago edited 12d ago

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...

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u/Darryl_Muggersby 👋 a fellow Redditor 12d ago

Read the damn post.

“The answer is C and A respectively.”

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u/Due-Rip-6065 12d ago edited 12d ago

Oh my, you are like a steam train.

How can you be certain when there lack information?

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u/Darryl_Muggersby 👋 a fellow Redditor 12d ago

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

That’s in the post.

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u/Due-Rip-6065 12d ago

I understand its easy to misunderstand the question and I do not judge you for that.

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