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Identify the following compound which exhibits geometrical isomerism.
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: The necessary and sufficient condition for a compound to exhibit geometrical isomerism is that the two groups attached to the same carbon must be different, i.e., alkenes of the following types show cis-trans isomerism.

Thus, out of the given examples, only but-2-ene exhibits geometrical isomerism.

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