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Given information

We are given with the molecule and we have to determine the molecular geometry and make a sketch of each molecule or ion using the bond conventions

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

In central metal atom is chlorine and it has an electronic configuration that is valence electron. 

So it form bond pair with a fluorine atom and remaining electron form lone pairs. 

Thus has T-shaped molecular geometry.

 



 

 

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