
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 truck delivered 4 bags of cement. They are stacked in the truck. A worker can carry one bag at a time either from the truck to the gate or from the gate to the shed. The worker can carry the bags in any order, each time taking the top bag, carrying it to the respective destination, and placing it on top of the existing stack (if there are already bags there). If given a choice to carry a bag from the truck or from the gate, the worker randomly chooses each option with a probability of 0.5. Eventually, all the bags end up in the shed.

a) (7th grade level, 1 point). What is the probability that the bags end up in the shed in the reverse order compared to how they were placed in the truck?

b) (7th grade level, 1 point). What is the probability that the bag that was second from the bottom in the truck ends up as the bottom bag in the shed?

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