
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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Eight friends participate in an apple eating contest. The graph shows the number of apples eaten by each participant. Adam ate the most apples, while both Zoe and Will ate the fewest. How many more apples than Zoe did Adam eat?

[asy]
defaultpen(linewidth(1pt)+fontsize(10pt));
pair[] yaxis = new pair[9];
for( int i = 0 ; i < 9 ; ++i ){

yaxis[i] = (0,i);

draw(yaxis[i]--yaxis[i]+(17,0));
}
draw((0,0)--(0,8));
draw((17,8)--(17,0));

fill((1,0)--(1,4)--(2,4)--(2,0)--cycle,grey);
fill((3,0)--(3,5)--(4,5)--(4,0)--cycle,grey);
fill((5,0)--(5,8)--(6,8)--(6,0)--cycle,grey);
fill((7,0)--(7,7)--(8,7)--(8,0)--cycle,grey);
fill((9,0)--(9,6)--(10,6)--(10,0)--cycle,grey);
fill((11,0)--(11,1)--(12,1)--(12,0)--cycle,grey);
fill((13,0)--(13,1)--(14,1)--(14,0)--cycle,grey);
fill((15,0)--(15,3)--(16,3)--(16,0)--cycle,grey);
label("0",yaxis[0],W);
label("1",yaxis[1],W);
label("2",yaxis[2],W);
label("3",yaxis[3],W);
label("4",yaxis[4],W);
label("5",yaxis[5],W);
label("6",yaxis[6],W);
label("7",yaxis[7],W);
label("8",yaxis[8],W);
label("Participants",(8.5,0),S);
label("Results of an Apple Eating Contest",(8.5,8),N);
label(rotate(90)*"$\#$ of Apples Eaten",(-1,4),W);
[/asy]

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