
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 team of six people is laying a 40-meter long pipe in the ground. For preparing the trench, they decided to take turns, with each person digging for the amount of time it would take the remaining five to collectively dig a quarter of the trench. The trench was completed when the last member of the team finished their allotted time. How many meters of the trench could they have dug in that same amount of time if they all worked together?

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