
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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Alpha and Beta visit a newly opened shop which sells $6$ different flavors of oreos and $4$ different flavors of milk. Alpha will not buy more than one of any item, whereas Beta will only buy oreos but does not mind buying repeats. How many ways are there for Alpha and Beta to collectively leave the store with exactly 3 items?

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