
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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There are four different passwords, $A$, $B$, $C$, and $D$, used by an intelligence station. Each week, one of the passwords is used, and each week it is randomly chosen with equal probability from the three passwords not used in the previous week. Given that the password used in the first week is $A$, find the probability that the password used in the seventh week is also $A$ (expressed as a simplified fraction).

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