
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]


system
Eight students participate in a banana eating contest. The graph shows the number of bananas eaten by each participating student. Alice ate the most bananas and Tom ate the fewest. How many more bananas than Tom did Alice eat?

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

yaxis[i] = (0,i);

draw(yaxis[i]--yaxis[i]+(17,0));
}
draw((0,0)--(0,9));
draw((17,9)--(17,0));

fill((1,0)--(1,4)--(2,4)--(2,0)--cycle,grey);
fill((3,0)--(3,7)--(4,7)--(4,0)--cycle,grey);
fill((5,0)--(5,8)--(6,8)--(6,0)--cycle,grey);
fill((7,0)--(7,5)--(8,5)--(8,0)--cycle,grey);
fill((9,0)--(9,3)--(10,3)--(10,0)--cycle,grey);
fill((11,0)--(11,2)--(12,2)--(12,0)--cycle,grey);
fill((13,0)--(13,6)--(14,6)--(14,0)--cycle,grey);
fill((15,0)--(15,1)--(16,1)--(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("9",yaxis[9],W);
label("Students/Participants",(8.5,0),S);
label("Results of a Banana Eating Contest",(8.5,9),N);
label(rotate(90)*"$\#$ of Bananas Eaten",(-1,4.5),W);
[/asy]

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