(b) Find the current delivered by the battery to this equivalent resistance

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Four resistors are connected to a battery with a terminal voltage of 12 V, as shown in the figure below. (Assume R1 = 27.0 Ω and R2 = 70.0 Ω.)

(a) How would you reduce the circuit to an equivalent single resistor connected to the battery? Use this procedure to find the equivalent resistance of the circuit.
 ____ Ω

(b) Find the current delivered by the battery to this equivalent resistance.
 ____ A

(c) Determine the power delivered by the battery.
 ____ W

(d) Determine the power delivered to the 50.0-Ω resistor.
 ____ W

R1
50.0 N
R2
+
20.0 N
12 V
Transcribed Image Text:R1 50.0 N R2 + 20.0 N 12 V
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