
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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In a talent competition, there are 9 judges. The organizing committee has set the following rules for calculating the contestants' scores: eliminate the highest and the lowest score given by the judges, and then calculate the average score of the remaining 7 judges as the contestant's competition score. Now, for one contestant, the highest score given by the 9 judges is 86 points, and the lowest score is 45 points. If the average score of all 9 judges before eliminating the highest and lowest scores is 76 points, then the contestant's competition score is ______ points.

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