EXERCISE 2 Drawing Resonance Structures: 

Draw a reasonable Lewis structure for the nitrite ion, NO₂^-. The structure is best described in terms of resonance, so draw all of its reasonable resonance structures and the resonance hybrid that summarizes them.

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