
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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Consider a sequence of increasing pentagons where each successive pentagon contains one more band of dots than its predecessor. Assume the dot pattern continues such that each new pentagon layer adds the same number of dots as the number of its sides. How many dots are in the fourth pentagon?

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