
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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Our basketball team has 18 members. We want to choose a starting lineup consisting of 8 players, where one player will specifically be the point guard, and the positions of the other seven players do not depend on order. In how many ways can we choose the starting lineup?

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