All the apples in the following diagram are identical. if each falls off its stack of books, which will have the most kinetic energy upon reaching the ground?
a
b
c
d
i want to say b but i don't know if this is a trick question!

Two resistors r1 and r2 may be connected either in series or parallel across an ideal battery with emf ε. we desire the rate of energy dissipation of the parallel combination to be 8.75 times that of the series combination. if r1 = 105 ω, what are the (a) smaller and (b) larger of the two values of r2 that result in that dissipation rate?