Question

You are required to select a carbon resistor of resistance 47k ohms +10% from a large collection .what should be the sequence of color bands used to code it.

Answer 1

47kohms+10% can also be written as 47×1000+10% the first and the second digit represent the two colours they are Yellow and violet respectively .multiplier also represents colour 1000 comes for orange and the 10% tolerance represent the silver colour .

The colour code is Yellow-violet-orange-silver