
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 ancient "Five Elements" theory posits that there are five types of properties in materials: metal, wood, earth, water, and fire. Metal overcomes wood, wood overcomes earth, earth overcomes water, water overcomes fire, and fire overcomes metal. If five different properties of materials are arranged in a row, but two materials with overcoming properties are not adjacent, then the number of such arrangements is $\boxed{\text{number}}$ (the result is expressed in numerical value).

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