
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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Kevin is in first grade, so his teacher asks him to calculate  $20+1\cdot 6+k$ , where  $k$  is a real number revealed to Kevin. However, since Kevin is rude to his Aunt Sally, he instead calculates  $(20+1)\cdot (6+k)$ . Surprisingly, Kevin gets the correct answer! Assuming Kevin did his computations correctly, what was his answer?

*Proposed by James Lin*

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