
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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Distribute five students, namely A, B, C, D, and E, to Peking University, Tsinghua University, and Renmin University of China for recommendation, with the condition that each university gets at least one student and student A cannot be recommended to Peking University. How many different recommendation plans are there? (Answer with a number)

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