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An electroscope has a charge of −3.9 µC while your finger has a charge of4.2 µC. You touch the electroscope with your finger anddiscover that the charges of your finger and the electroscope arenow the same. In this process, electrons were transferred from theelectroscope to your finger. How many electrons were transferred inorder for your finger and the electroscope to have the samecharge?

---I got 4.05 but this isn'tright

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Consider the in the final state the electroscope and you are the whole system and use the conservation of total charge At the end you both have equal charge you may    See Answer
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