Using Kirchoff's laws to find current in complex circuit

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Homework Statement


Textbook circuit diagram (Figure 19.87) with a 20 V battery, resistors R1 through R6, currents I1 to I6, a 5 V battery, and three marked loops; the student's handwritten resistance values are annotated in gray.

Textbook page titled Answers to Checkpoints 803 listing answers (a) to (e) for a circuit problem, followed by problem P80 with a partial circuit diagram showing resistors R2 and R4 and an emf2 battery.


Homework Equations


V=IR and kirchhoffs laws

The Attempt at a Solution



Number three is my attempt at finding a solution but I got stuck when I had to find an expression for loop one on the diagram. Thanks in advance for your help

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Image too faint to read - which loop did you have trouble with? - please type out the attempt.
A trick to getting the loop sums right is to put potential diffrerence arrows on all voltage sources and resistors. The PD goes negative to positive for batteries, and goes opposite the labelled current for resistors.
When you traverse a loop, add the arrows you go in the same direction with and subtract the others.
 
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