
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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Marius is entering another wildlife photo contest, this time with nine different-height pandas. The three shortest pandas, due to their nature, must be placed at the ends of the row and in increasing order of height from left to right. How many ways can he arrange the pandas?

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