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Can anyone please show, or describe how to get 160 ohm resistance out of a circuit with only 100 ohm resistors, maxium of 5 resistors?

I know it is probably a combination of a series and parallel circuit but can't quite figure it out. Bit of a brain teaser I guess.

Thanks for any help.

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  • Try to start with $$300~\Omega$$ and work from there... – skvery Feb 21 '17 at 20:29
  • Think about a ladder... – user28910 Feb 21 '17 at 20:37
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    Is this a homework question? – Voltage Spike Feb 21 '17 at 20:44
  • It's an extra credit thing, find various values with only 5 - 100 ohm resisotrs, I've gotten them all except for the 160 ohm which is stumping me. – Totalslaughter Feb 21 '17 at 20:47
  • also start with 50 Ω – Tony Stewart EE75 Feb 21 '17 at 20:50
  • also a very simple [**very very inefficient**] way for solving more generic problems of this type could be done by recursion, where every time your code tries to form the equivalent resistance by making a parallel network of the only available resistance, i have managed to write one on the run https://trinket.io/library/trinkets/ed840c000e For example building a total resistance of 101 ohm out of 100 ohm could be done by 100 ohm series with 100 parallel 100ohm of r total = 1 ! `(100 -- (100*//100//))` – Elbehery Feb 21 '17 at 22:51

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Circuit

Here's what I came up with. Trial and error should have gotten you to a similar point.

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