
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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Given an ellipse whose center is at the origin and whose axes are aligned with the coordinate axes, find the distance between its foci if the length of the semi-major axis is 10 and the length of the semi-minor axis is 8.

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