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The author considers the operator \(U= u_0+ A Fu\), where \(A: B\to B\) is a linear bounded operator defined on a Banach space \(B\) and \(F: B\to B\) is a Lipschitz-continuous operator (\(u_0\) is an element in \(B\)). Let us denote by \(L(r)\) the Lipschitz constant of \(F\) in the ball with center at zero and radius \(r\). Then the following result about the optimal balls for which the contraction-mapping principle can be applied is presented. Theorem. Suppose that the derivative \(L'\) is an increasing function. Then there exists exactly one radius \(r_0\) such that the contraction-mapping principle applied to the ball \(B_{r_0}(u_0)\) leads to the smallest possible restriction of \(\|A\|\). The optimal radius \(r_0\) is given by \(L'(r_0)= {M\over r^2_0}\), where \(M=\|Fu_0\|\). Some interesting remarks are presented at the end of the paper. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0930.00044].