Your friend says that the equivalent (combined) resis-tance of resistors connected in series is always greater than the resistance of the largest resistor. do you agree?

Relax

Respuesta :

Yes, that's true.

In fact, when n resistors are connected in series, their equivalent resistance is the sum of the resistances of all the resistor:
[tex]R_{eq} = R_1 + R_2 + ... +R_n[/tex]
Therefore, we immediately see from this formula that [tex]R_{eq}[/tex] is always larger than the value of the resistance of any single resistor in the formula.