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What happens to resistance of a conductor if area of cross section is doubled?

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The resistance of a conductor is inversely proportional to its area of cross section.
`RpropI/A`
If A is changed to 2A,
`R=I/(2A)`
i.e., Resistance will be reduced to half.
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