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The resistance in a circuit is halved. What happens to the voltage?

V = IR

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Responses

The voltage remains the same.
The voltage remains the same.

The voltage is halved.
The voltage is halved.

The voltage is doubled.
The voltage is doubled.

The voltage is increased by a factor of 4.
The voltage is increased by a factor of 4.

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
The voltage is halved.

Reason: V = I·R, so with the same current I, V is proportional to R — halving R halves V. (If instead the circuit is powered by a fixed voltage source, the source voltage stays the same and the current would double.)