
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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Design a license plate that is 4 characters long, where the first and last characters are letters, and the two middle characters can be either letters or digits. Additionally, two adjacent characters in the license plate must be identical. How many ways are there to create such a license plate?

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