
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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The ancient "Five Elements" theory posits that there are five types of properties in materials: metal, wood, earth, water, and fire. It is believed that metal conquers wood, wood conquers earth, earth conquers water, water conquers fire, and fire conquers metal. If five different properties of materials are arranged in a row, the number of arrangements where two materials with conquering properties are not adjacent is ________ (answer in digits).

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