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You have two metallic wires of resistances `6 Omega and 3 Omega`. How will you connect these wires to get the effective resistance of `2 Omega`?

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In parallel because then `1/R=1/6+1/3=(1+2)/3=3/6=1/2` and hence `R=2 Omega`
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