This question can be solved by making use of Ohm's law, which states that the voltage difference across a circuit is proportional to the current flowing through the circuit, as well as to the resistance of the circuit. Written in equation form, we have:

Solving for current, we can rearrange to obtain:

By Ohm's law:

, where  is the voltage drop across the wire.  is the current flowing through the wire, and  is the total resistance within the circuit. 

Since resistors are in series: 

, where  and  are the resistances of the two resistors. 

In our case:

Therefore:

We need to use Ohm's law here which is given by:

Where  is the voltage in Volts,  is the current in Amperes, and  is the resistance in Ohms. We know the current in the circuit as well as the resistance of the resistor. We substitute our known values and solve for Voltage which will give us the voltage drop across the resistor.

We use Ohm's law, , to find the current in the circuit.  In Ohm's law  is the voltage in the circuit,  is the current in the circuit and  is the circuit's resistance.

Solving the equation for , we have

We use Ohm's law, , to find the current in the circuit.  In Ohm's law  is the voltage in the circuit,  is the current in the circuit and  is the circuit's resistance.

Solving the equation for , we have

.

We use Ohm's law, , to find the current in the circuit.  In Ohm's law  is the voltage in the circuit,  is the current in the circuit and  is the circuit's resistance.

In our problem,

We use Ohm's law, , to find the current in the circuit.  In Ohm's law  is the voltage in the circuit,  is the current in the circuit and  is the circuit's resistance.

Solving Ohm's law for resistance gives us

.

A few rules of circuits that will help here for series circuits are:

Method 1:

The current through  is given and that will be the same current going through  since there are no current junctions. Since the sum of all voltage drops must equal the emf of the battery, the voltage drop across  can be found:

We can use Ohm's law to find the resistance:

Method 2:

Ohm's law:

The resistance values are added to get , so

Solve for :

To answer this question we need to use the definition of Ohm’s law.

where  is voltage,  is current, and  is resistance. As the equation suggests, to determine the effect of voltage on current we need information regarding the resistance. For example, increasing the voltage will increase the current if resistance decreases or if resistance stays the same. On the other hand, increasing the voltage will decrease the current if the resistance increases drastically; therefore, we cannot determine the effect of voltage on current without knowing anything about the resistance (we need to know if resistance increases, decreases, or stays the same). Similarly, we cannot determine the effect of resistance on the current without knowing about the voltage.

Recall that the definition of current is the amount of electrons flowing through a circuit in a given amount of time. We can increase the amount of electrons flowing through a circuit (for a given time) if we increase the current. Using Ohm’s law, we can determine conditions that will increase the current.

Solving for current we get

This means we can get a high current if we increase voltage or decrease resistance. Note that that changing the voltage source from a direct source to an alternating source will generate an alternating current with similar amplitude; it won’t increase the total current of the system and, subsequently, the amount of electrons flowing through the circuit per given time.