Answer the Following Questions About the Bonding in Dimethyl Formamide $\sigma$

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Essay

Answer the following questions about the bonding in dimethyl formamide.The Lewis structure without nonbonding electrons is shown below. Give the following information for atom a and for atom b:
How many electron groups are present, and what is the electron-pair geometry? What is the shape associated with this bonding arrangement?
What is its hybridization?
How many $\sigma$ and how many $\pi$ bonds has it formed?

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