
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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42 students are lined up. Paul gives each student a strictly positive number of pebbles. It is assumed that each student has strictly more pebbles than their neighbor to the right (except for the student at the far right of the line). What is the minimum total number of pebbles that Paul has distributed?

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