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Try drawing the tetrahedral molecule with some axes on it and use simple trigonometry to define the coordinates of each of the outer atoms. It may be useful to let one of the bottom atoms to lie along an axis. To find the coordinates of the other two bottom atoms, it is easiest to draw a top-down diagram to help...