
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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Five rectangular paper strips each of length 12 and width 1 are overlaid flat on a table where each overlaps with two others perpendicularly at two different points. Each overlapping section is exactly 2 units in length equally shared. How much area of the table is covered by these strips?
A) 30
B) 40
C) 50
D) 60
E) 70

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