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A dietician wishes to mix two types of foods in such a way that vitamin contents of the mixture contain atleast 8 units of vitamin A and 10 units of vitamin C. Food I' contains 2 units/kg of vitamin A and I unit/kg of vitamin C. Food 'Il' contains 1 unit/kg of vitamin A and 2 units/kg of vitamin C. It costs Rs 50 per kg to purchase food T and Rs 70 per kg to purchase food I'. Formulate this problem as a linear programming problem to minimise the cost of such a mixture.

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