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Jonnyto
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Okay well my issue is from a basic problem. The problem is you are given an unlimited number of 10 Ohm resistors. They can only handle 1 watt of dissipation and you need to create a circuit that has a total resistance of 10 Ohms, and has a power dissipation of 5 Watts. They are actually looking for the minimum number of resistors that are needed to create this process. So I was able to get that the minimum is 5 resistors but as that turns out it's not; it's actually 9 resistors. Apparently my answer is the maximum and 3 is the minimum and then it is squared. I get that part but not how they went from 5 resistors to 3 resistors.