
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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A pizza has a diameter of 16 inches, and eight pepperoni circles fit neatly across its diameter with each overlapping slightly with the next. If a total of 32 circles of pepperoni are placed on this pizza without further overlap beyond the initial edge overlap, find the fraction of the pizza that is covered by pepperoni.

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