
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 delivers newspapers to 12 houses along Pine Street. To save effort, he skips some houses, but to maintain his job, he never misses delivering to more than two consecutive houses. Additionally, houses numbered 4 and 9 must always receive a newspaper. Compute the number of ways the paperboy could deliver papers under these circumstances.

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