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Electricity - Calculating currents & Voltages etc

I am currently studying a HNC in Engineering and I am stuck on what is a simple electricity question but I'm getting myself confused.
I have a circuit with a 45v battery (E1) in series with a 3ohm resistor (R1), with a 30v battery (E2) and 6ohm resistor (R2) in parallel and then a 3ohm resistor (R3) in parallel to that.

I need to calculate the following:

Current through R1
Voltage across R1
Current through R2
Voltage across R2
Power dissipated in R3

Please could someone explain these to me? I have got 3 different answers to part one and I'm not sure which is correct.

Thanks
(edited 11 months ago)
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Original post by ellie1312
I am currently studying a HNC in Engineering and I am stuck on what is a simple electricity question but I'm getting myself confused.
I have a circuit with a 45v battery (E1) in series with a 3ohm resistor (R1), with a 30v battery (E2) and 6ohm resistor (R2) in parallel and then a 3ohm resistor (R3) in parallel to that.

I need to calculate the following:

Current through R1
Voltage across R1
Current through R2
Voltage across R2
Power dissipated in R3

Please could someone explain these to me? I have got 3 different answers to part one and I'm not sure which is correct.

Thanks

Could you maybe provide a picture of the circuit, because its difficult to communicate the exact layout with words

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