We're being asked to name the given alkene.
When naming an alkene, we're going to use the following steps:
Step 1. Find the longest carbon chain and change the “ane” ending to “ene”.
If there is a tie between longest chains, choose the chain that gives more substituents.
Name the following alkene
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