Question

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?

Answer 1

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.".