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The objective of A diet problem is to ascertain the quantities of certain foods that should be eaten to meet certain nutritional  requirement at minimum cost. The consideration is limited to milk, beaf and eggs, and to vitamins A, B, C. The number of milligrams of each of these vitamins contained within A unit of each food is given below: Vitamin, Litre of milk, Kg of beaf, Dozen of eggs, Minimum daily requirements A B C, 1 100 10, 1 10 100, 10 10 10, 1 mg 50 mg 10 mg Cost, Rs. 1.00, Rs. 1.10, Rs. 0.50, What is the linear programming formulation for this problem?

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