
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 flower nursery cultivates a certain type of seedling in pots. Experiments have shown that the profit per pot of flowers is related to the number of seedlings per pot as follows: when 4 seedlings are planted per pot, the average profit per seedling is 5 yuan; under the same cultivation conditions, if one more seedling is added per pot, the average profit per seedling will decrease by 0.5 yuan. To achieve a profit of 24 yuan per pot while minimizing costs as much as possible, how many seedlings should be planted per pot?

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