clydesdale, it might help you if you were to draw out a simple circuit and do the math using ohms law to see how it works. Just use a source like 120 VDC, load resistor of 144 ohms (equivalent to 100 W light bulb), and say something like 2-2 ohm resistors representing each leg of the wire and see what you come up with.
I will give you a hint to one of the numbers you should come up with 96.6
