During routine technical work, which statement about RMS voltage for a sine wave should guide the technician?
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Ais always twice the peak voltage
Bcannot be measured with a true-RMS meter
Cequals frequency multiplied by resistance
Dis the DC-equivalent heating value and equals peak voltage divided by the square root of two
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