Write IUPAC name of the following:

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Solution

Consider the longest chain which has a double bond. Because it is a functional group here.
Number the chain such that the double bond has to get less number.
At the 5th and 6th carbons, ethyl groups and at 3rd carbon, a methyl group is there.
So, name them according to alphabetical order.
So IUPAC name is
5,6-diethyl-3-methyl-dec-4-ene.

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