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Three types of gasoline are manufactured by a company - Regular, Super, and Extra.Regular should have at least 11 percent additive 1 and 17 percent additive 2.Super should have at least 13 percent additive 1 and 22 percent additive 2.Extra should have at least 17 percent additive 1 and 19 percent additive 2.These are made by using two crudes - A and B.Crude A cost $28 per barrel and is 14 percent additive 1 and 18 percent additive 2.Crude B costs $30 per barrel and is 20 percent additive 1 and 24 percent additive 2.The demand for Regular is projected to be 1,000 barrels, while each of the others has a demand of 2,000 barrels.Formulate this as a linear programming problem to minimize cost while meeting all constraints.Carefully define all decision variables.

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