
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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A paperboy has to deliver newspapers to 12 houses along a street. To reduce his workload, he might skip some houses but to maintain his job, he must not miss delivering to four consecutive houses. Compute the number of ways the paperboy could manage the delivery under these new conditions.

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