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In series, you just add the resistor values together to find the total resistance.

In parallel you can use the following equation you can find the total resistance by multiplying the lowest and highest resistor value, the dividing that by the sum of all the resistor values you have in parallel. you could also take the inverse of all the inverses of you resistor values added together.

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