
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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John's flight departed from Los Angeles at 9:15 AM and arrived in New York at 6:25 PM. Los Angeles is in the Pacific Time Zone (PT), and New York is in the Eastern Time Zone (ET), which is 3 hours ahead of PT. If the flight took $h$ hours and $m$ minutes, with $0 < m < 60$, calculate $h + m$.

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