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Question
Figure shows two ways of connecting the three bulbs A, B and C to a battery. Name the two arrangements. Which of them do you prefer to use in a household circuit? Give a reason to support your answer.
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Solution
(a) is SERIES arrangement .
(b) is parallel arrangement.
A PARALLEL arrangement of bulbs is preferred as if one of the bulbs gets fused, the other two will keep glowing.
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