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A company manufactures two types of screws A and B. All the screws have to pass through a threading machine and a slotting machine. A box of Type A screws requires 2 minutes on the threading machine and 3 minutes on the slotting machine. A box of type B screws requires 8 minutes of threading on the threading machine and 2 minutes on the slotting machine. In a week, each machine is available for 60 hours. 

On selling these screws, the company gets a profit of Rs 100 per box on type A screws and Rs 170 per box on type B screws.

Formulate this problem as a LPP given that the objective is to maximise profit.

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Let the company manufactures x boxes of type A screws and y boxes of type B screws. From the given information, we have following corresponding constraint table.

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