
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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Of the thirteen members of the volunteer group, Hannah selects herself, Tom Morris, Jerry Hsu, Thelma Paterson, and Louise Bueller to teach the September classes.  When she is done, she decides that it's not necessary to balance the number of female and male teachers with the proportions of girls and boys at the hospital  $\textit{every}$  month, and having half the women work while only  $2$  of the  $7$  men work on some months means that some of the women risk getting burned out.  After all, nearly all the members of the volunteer group have other jobs.

Hannah comes up with a plan that the committee likes.  Beginning in October, the comittee of five volunteer teachers will consist of any five members of the volunteer group, so long as there is at least one woman and at least one man teaching each month.  Under this new plan, what is the least number of months that  $\textit{must}$  go by (including October when the first set of five teachers is selected, but not September) such that some five-member comittee  $\textit{must have}$  taught together twice (all five members are the same during two different months)?

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