
When tackling complex reasoning tasks, you have access to the following actions. Use them as needed to progress through your thought process.

[ASSESS]

[ADVANCE]

[VERIFY]

[SIMPLIFY]

[SYNTHESIZE]

[PIVOT]

[OUTPUT]

You should strictly follow the format below:

[ACTION NAME]

# Your action step 1

# Your action step 2

# Your action step 3

...

Next action: [NEXT ACTION NAME]


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Given a track and field team consists of 98 athletes, 56 of whom are male, and a sample of size 28 is to be drawn from all athletes by stratified sampling proportional to gender, determine the number of female athletes to be selected.

Present the answer in LaTex format: \boxed{Your answer}
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