
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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We built a structure similar to the one in the picture using cubes. However, instead of four floors, it had twenty-five. Then, we painted all the exterior walls of the structure. The vertical walls were painted red and the horizontal walls were painted blue. (The structure is standing on the ground, so we did not paint the base.)

a) How many times more red paint did we use compared to blue paint?

b) How many cube faces did we paint in total?

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