
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 grocer decides to create a more stable pyramid-like stack of oranges with the base dimensions being $7$ oranges by $9$ oranges. To enhance stability, starting from the second layer, every alternate layer becomes $1$ orange less in length and $2$ oranges less in width than the preceding one instead of uniformly decreasing by $1$ orange, until only one row of oranges remains. Determine the total number of oranges in the stack.
A) $150$
B) $162$
C) $170$
D) $175$
E) $180$

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