
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]

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# Your action step 3

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Next action: [NEXT ACTION NAME]


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A highway maintenance team travels by car along a straight east-west road for maintenance. It is agreed that east is positive and west is negative. The distances traveled by the team from point $A$ to the end of work on a certain day are: $+12$, $-6$, $+4$, $-2$, $-8$, $+13$, $-2$ (unit: kilometers).<br/>$(1)$ At the end of work, is the team located to the east or west of point $A$? How far is it from point $A$?<br/>$(2)$ If the maintenance team returns to point $A$ in the end, and consumes $0.2$ liters of fuel per kilometer, how much fuel is consumed in total?

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