
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 beetle wants to travel on the surface of a regular tetrahedron with edge length 2 units. Its journey starts from one vertex and ends at the midpoint of an edge that shares no common vertex with the starting vertex. What is the shortest path it can travel on the surface?
A) $\sqrt{3}$ units
B) $2$ units
C) $3$ units
D) $4$ units
E) $2\sqrt{3}$ units

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