Chlorine combined with hydrogen (HCI) has a valence

H – hydrogen, always has valence I, since it is in group I and 1 period, and has only 1 electron, which is unpaired.
Let chlorine have valence x, then the common denominator is 1, therefore chlorine in this compound has valence I.



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