
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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At the end of the year $2010$, a certain company paid taxes of $40$ million yuan, and at the end of the year $2012$, it paid taxes of $48.4$ million yuan. Let $x$ be the average annual growth rate of the taxes paid by the company in these two years. According to the problem, the equation is ____.

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