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A piece of wire having a resistance R is cut into five equal parts.
a) How will the resistance of each part of the wire change compared with the original resistance ?
b) If the five parts of the wire are placed in parallel, how will the resistance of the combination change ?
c) What will be the ratio of the effective resistance in series connection to that of the parallel connection ?

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