If you were connecting up various electrical appliances in a home, how would you want to arrange them so that if one appliance fails, the others would still function?

a.

A series arrangement with the largest resistance appliance receiving the current "first", before the others.

b.	A series arrangement with the smallest resistance appliance receiving the current "first", before the others.

c.

A parallel arrangement where the appliances are placed in pairs, two on each current path.

d.

A parallel arrangement where each appliance is placed on its own current path.

e.

A mixed arrangement where the larger resistance appliances are in series, but smaller resistance appliances are in parallel.