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A diet is to contain atleast 80 units of vitamin A and 100 units of minerals.Two foods F1 and F2 are available.Food F1 costs Rs 4 per unit food and F2 costs Rs 6 per unit.One unit of food F1 contains 3 units of vitamin A and 4 units of minerals.One unit of food F2 contains 6 unit of of vitamin A and 3 units of minerals.Formulate this as a linear programming problem.Find the minimum costs for diet that consists of misture of these two foods and also meets the minimal nutritional requirements.

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