
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 volleyball tournament for the Euro-African cup, there were nine more teams from Europe than from Africa. Each pair of teams played exactly once and the Europeans teams won precisely nine times as many matches as the African teams, overall. What is the maximum number of matches that a single African team might have won?

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