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Maleic acid and fumaric acid are :

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Solution:

Maleic acid is cis-butenedioic acid and fumaric acid is trans-butenedioic acid. They have the same connectivity and differ only in the arrangement about the C=C double bond, so they are geometrical (cis-trans) isomers.

Ans. Geometric isomers

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