
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 science group consists of 2 female students and $x$ male students. Now, 3 students are to be selected to participate in an exhibition. If there are exactly 20 different ways to select the students when exactly 1 female student is chosen, then the number of male students in the science group is $\boxed{5}$.

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