In this physics problem, what we are concerned about are only resistors. If you are poor at physics, do not worry, since solving this problem does not require you to have advanced abilities in physics.
Resistors are said to be connected together in parallel when both of their terminals are respectively connected to each terminal of the other resistors.
We have the following parallel resistor equation for k resistors with resistances R1, R2, ..., Rk in parallel and their combined resistance R:
Now you have n resistors, the i-th of which has a resistance of ri ohms with the equation