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The current in a hair dryer measures 15 amps. The resistance of the hair dryer is 14 ohms. What is the voltage?

i'm pretty terrible at math, if you could explain how to found the correct answer to help future problems i would greatly appreciate it!

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We have that there is a formula connecting these three. V=I*R where V is voltage, I is the current and R is the resistance. Substituting, we get that V=210 Volta, which is the unit of measurement for voltage. You can think of the relationship in the following way : The energy of the field is equal to the flow of the field times the resistance that it meets.
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