Solution

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The dual from part (a) is
The point is dual feasible and has value . The primal point
is feasible and also has objective value
By weak duality, neither point can be improved, so
The strict dual inequalities for and , together with complementary slackness, force at any optimum; the two tight primal constraints then force and . Thus the displayed minimizer is unique.

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