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Chlorine (nucleus) has 1 lone pair and 3 polar-covalent bonding pairs (the shared pairs with O).

Each oxygen (nucleus) has 3 lone pairs and 1 polar-covalent bonding pair (the shared pair with Cl)

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Q: How many lone pairs of electrons are there in the ClO3- ion?
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