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A cell of internal resistances is connected to a load of resistance . Energy is dissipated in the load, but some thermal energy is also wasted in the cell. The efficiency of such an arrangement is found from the expression, . Which of the following gives the efficiency in this case?
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)

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