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If a man rides his motor cycle at 25 km/hr, he has to spend Rs 2 per km on petrol, if he rides at a faster speed of 40 km/hr, the petrol cost increases to Rs 5 perkm. He has Rs 100 to spend on petrol and wishes to find maximum distance he can travel within one hour. Express this as a linear programming problem and then solve it graphically.

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