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1. PF5 has five single bonds to the central atom. SF4 has four single bonds to...

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1. PF5 has five single bonds to the central atom. SF4 has foursingle bonds to the central atom and the central atom possesses alone pair of electrons. How can this observation be used to explainthe different bond angles you measured.

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there is always repulsion between bonding electrons so the bonds placed itself in the position far apart from each other so PF5 will have trigonal bipyramidal shape and the bond    See Answer
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