
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 rectangular park is 200 feet wide and 500 feet long. Random sampling indicates that, on average, there are five ants per square inch throughout the park. However, in a square patch at one corner of the park that is 50 feet on each side, the average increases to eight ants per square inch. Of the following, the number most closely approximates the total number of ants in the park is:
A) 70 million
B) 73 million
C) 75 million
D) 78 million
E) 80 million

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