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(10 pts) Draw the Lewis structures for each compound and determine formal charge, hybridization, electron and molecular geome
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H3AsO3 will be having a tetrahedral electron geometry and trigonal pyramidal molecular geometry with sp3 hybridization of As as it contains 3 bond pairs and one lone pair around the central atom: The lewis structure is as follows: The formal charge is also shown

Ho— As-OHarsenous acid

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The molecular geometry will be square pyramidal and the hybridization will be sp3d2 as it contains five bond pairs and one lone pair.

c) The molecular geometry is bent and the hybridization is sp3.

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