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I went through the process of drawing the structure for this ion(sulfite) and somehow the octect rule is satisfied once the remaining pair of electrons is used for the central atom "Sulfur" 1 S atom * 6 valence electrons + 3 O atoms * 6 valence electrons + 2 electrons from the negative charge =...

First thing is always subtract x to other side of the equation or add x if it's a negative to begin with so you get this 4y=-16x -20 then is divide by 4 to get "y" by itself and you get y=-4x +-5 and you're done and makes sure x comes before the number in this case it was -20