Can You Consider a Voltage Divider as Multiple Independent Circuits?

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Is it acceptable to think of a voltage divider as a series of separate circuits all with the same power supply but each with a different set of resistors?
 
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Not usually, no.
To see why - what happens when you load one of the circuits?
 

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