
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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Denis cut out a ship from a square sheet of graph paper (see the picture). What is the minimum number of cells the square sheet of paper could have consisted of before the ship was cut out?

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