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Choose the correct alternatives :
(a) Alloys of metals usually have (greater/less) resistivity than that of their constituent metals.
(b) Alloys usually have much (lower/higher) temperature coefficients of resistance than pure metals.
(c ) The resistivity of the alloy manganin in (nearly independent of/ increase rapidly ) with increase of temperature.
(d) The resistivity of a typical insulator (e.g. amber) is greater than that of a metal by a factor of the order of `(10^(22) or 10^(3))`.

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(a) greater (b) lower (c ) is nearly independent of (d) `10^(22)`
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