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Given information

Here, we are given with the atom  and we have determine the molecular geometry of the atom.

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

The interior atom in molecule is carbon atom. there are   carbon atom but both are equivalent since each carbon atom is bonded to same number of hydrogen atom.

carbon has atomic number  and thus its electronic configuration is  that is  valence electron.

electron form single bond with  hydrogen and one carbon atom.

hence has  hybridisation and interior atom has tetrahedral molecular geometry.

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