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Problem 10 (Good Samaritan Problem)

A baker, being a good samaritan, bakes cookies for hungry children. He figures the number of cookies he can bake per hour is proportional to the product of the number of hours of sleep he gets in a day times times the number of hours he spends baking cookies. Assuming he is either sleeping or baking cookies, how many hours of sleep should the baker get each day in order to maximize the number of cookies he can bake in a day?

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