
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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At Eastern Middle School, $150$ students usually attend the Math Club where they conduct activities and enjoy refreshments. This year however, due to a scheduling conflict with a popular sports event, the club expects a $40\%$ drop in attendance. Sonia and Rahul are preparing cookies for the event. Each student consumes an average of $3$ cookies. Sonia and Rahul can only bake complete batches of cookies, where one batch yields $20$ cookies. Determine how many complete batches they should prepare for the event.

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