534,044 views
38 votes
38 votes
A student makes a voltage divider from a 45-V battery, a 475-k

resistor, and a 235-k resistor. The output is measured across the
smaller resistor. What is the voltage?

User Damen TheSifter
by
2.6k points

1 Answer

15 votes
15 votes

Answer:

14.9 v

Step-by-step explanation:

V = IR

The voltages across the resistors will be proprtional to the values of the resistors

45 * 235 / (235 + 475) =

User Vojtech Ruzicka
by
3.0k points