
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 Chinese Academy of Social Sciences needs to conduct a stratified sampling survey of the economic conditions in the counties within the Poyang Lake Eco-Economic Zone in Jiangxi Province. The survey will cover 20 counties within 9 prefecture-level cities (excluding urban districts and county-level cities). If exactly 2 samples were taken from the 8 counties in the Jiujiang area that are part of the economic zone, then the total number of samples taken is __________.

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