An AB5 molecule adopts the geometry shown here. (b) Do you think there are any nonbonding electron pairs on atom A?

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Hello everyone today. We have the following problem. Consider the A. X. Four molecule blow count the non bonding electron pairs and adam A. If any. So we have this molecule here A. X. Four and this represents the different atoms in this molecule. So the fact that we have one A. And four Xs tells us that this giant molecule in the middle is R. A. And these individual molecules here represent our X. The white circles represent our X. Therefore we must consider the formula that we have which is A. X. Four. And when you have this formula here, according to the vesper bonding pair rule, this must have two lone pairs and two lone pairs are the same thing as non bonding electron pairs. And with that we have our final answer. I hope this helped. And until next time.