
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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The collective farm team must harvest potatoes within a certain timeframe. After $60\%$ of the total potatoes were harvested, a combine was sent to assist the team, reducing the harvesting time by 5 days. How many days would the team need to complete the potato harvest without the combine's help, given that the combine could do the entire job 8 days faster than the team?

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