
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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"Simple" arithmetic. Once, during a visit to a mental institution, I asked two patients how old they were.

They answered. To test their arithmetic abilities, I asked them to add the two named ages. One of them got 44 and the other got 1280. I realized that the first subtracted one age from the other, and the second multiplied them together. How old were the patients?

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