
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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At the side entrance of the People's Park, there are 9 steps. Xiao Cong can only go up 1 or 2 steps at a time. Xiao Cong found that when the number of steps increases gradually to 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, etc., the number of different ways to climb the steps follows the sequence 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, etc., which is the famous Fibonacci sequence. So, how many different ways are there for Xiao Cong to climb these 9 steps?

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