
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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The school organizes student representatives to visit and comfort the elderly who have lost their only child. Now, there are 5 bags of gifts, numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, to be distributed among 4 elderly people, with each person receiving at least one bag. If the two bags given to the same person are consecutive in number, then the number of different distribution methods is.

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