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Question 3 what geometric arrangement of charge clouds is expected for an atom that has five charge clouds? trigonal bipyramidal square planar octahedral tetrahedral

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AX5E0 - trigonal bipyramidal - zero lone pairs;
AX4E1 - seesaw - 1 lone pair;
AX3E2 - T-shaped - 2 lone pairs;
AX2E3 - linear - 3 lone pairs;

The only option that matches is trigonal bipyramidal.

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