Help required in understanding fundamentals of electricity:

Electric current always take the least resistance path. So in a parallel resistor network the current should flow only through the least resistance. Instead current gets divided between resistances.

Can anyone explain the flaw in my understanding?

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Help required in understanding fundamentals of electricity: 

Electric current always take the least resistance path. So in a parallel resistor network the current should flow only through the least resistance. Instead current gets divided between resistances. 

Can anyone explain the flaw in my understanding?

radar · Answer

Your thinking is slightly flawed, but you are close, just change this sentence "So in a parallel resistor network the current should flow only through the least resistance. "  To read: "So in a parallel resistor network the greater current should flow  through the least resistance with the lesser flowing through the higher resistance.".