
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 school carried out a reading activity with the theme of "Books Filling the Campus" using after-school services, planning to purchase $a$ copies of type A reading materials and $b$ copies of type B reading materials. It is known that type A reading materials cost $10$ yuan per copy, and type B reading materials cost $8 yuan per copy. The total cost will be ______ yuan.

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