
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]


system
Imagine a solar system with the following distribution of moons across ten planets (planet X has moons that are currently unregistered in the data set):

\begin{tabular}{c|c}
Planet & $\#$ of Moons \\
\hline
Mercury & 0 \\
Venus & 1 \\
Earth & 1 \\
Mars & 3 \\
Jupiter & 21 \\
Saturn & 18 \\
Uranus & 14 \\
Neptune & 6 \\
Pluto & 3 \\
Planet X & "?" \\
\end{tabular}

After a new observation, it was confirmed that Planet X has 8 moons. Given this data, calculate the median number of moons.

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