
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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There are 8 children, each wearing either a red hat or a blue hat. If a child sees 3 or more children wearing red hats, they will take a red balloon; otherwise, they will take a blue balloon. The result is that some children take red balloons and some take blue balloons. Given this, how many children are wearing red hats?

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