
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 student, Liam, wants to earn a total of 30 homework points. For earning the first four homework points, he has to do one homework assignment each; for the next four points, he has to do two homework assignments each; and so on, such that for every subsequent set of four points, the number of assignments he needs to do increases by one. What is the smallest number of homework assignments necessary for Liam to earn all 30 points?

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