The Star hotel was burned down in a fire and the manager decided to accommodate the  guests in 4–person and 8-person tents. The tents were to be hired at a cost of Kshs 1,500 and  Kshs 4,500 per night respectively, the space available could accommodate at most 13 tents  and the manager had to cope with at least 64 guests.

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Formulate this as a linear programming model that could be used to determine the number  of tents of each type that could pull up in order to minimize the overall cost.

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