A heater coil connected to a supply of a 220 V is dissipating some power 
The coil is cut into half and the two halves are connected in parallel. The heater now dissipates a power 
The ratio of power 
is
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C
. If resistance of heater coil is R, then resistance of parallel combination of two halves will be 
So 
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