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A thick/wide road, with many lanes, can carry more cars than a thin/narrow road, with only one or two lanes.
Answer:
The resistance of a thin wire is greater than the resistance of a thick wire because a thin wire has fewer electrons to carry the current. The relationship between resistance and the area of the cross section of a wire is inversely proportional .
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