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Chocolate Chip Cookies

Making chocolate chip cookies involves mixing flour, salt, oil, baking soda and chocolate chips to form dough which is rolled into a plane about 50 cm square. Circles are cut from the plane, placed on a cookie sheet, and baked in an oven for about twenty minutes. When the cookies are done, they are removed from the oven and allowed to cool before being eaten.

We are concerned here with the process of cutting the first cookie after the dough has been rolled. Each chip is visible in the planar dough, so we need simply to place the cutter so as to maximize the number of chocolate chips contained in its perimeter.





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Mon Jan 24 15:47:44 EST 2000