
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 cell phone plan costs $30$ dollars each month, plus $0.07$ dollars per text message sent, plus $0.12$ dollars for each minute used over $35$ hours, and $0.15$ dollars per MB for data used over $2$ GB. Given that Alex sent $150$ text messages, talked for $36.5$ hours, and used $2.5$ GB of data in February, calculate the total amount Alex had to pay.

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