Suppose that you tum on the heater in your room and all of the lights in your room go out. Give a possible reason why the lights went out.

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One possible reason is that there is a short circuit in the heater. Another possible reason is that the heater, along with any other devices attached to the circuit, overloads the circuit and trips the breaker.

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