
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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Ice-cream-utopia is promoting its variety of ice cream flavors. Initially, it only has four basic flavors: chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, and mint. They create "new" flavors by blending exactly four scoops of ice cream from these basic flavors. Each distinct combination of scoops, including using four scoops of the same type, counts as a "flavor."

How many distinct total flavors can Ice-cream-utopia generate using four scoops of these four basic flavors?

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