
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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Consider a square quilt block made from sixteen smaller squares, where each smaller square is identical in size. Four of these squares are divided into two right-angled triangles. If two triangles from two different squares are shaded such that they cover half the area of each of these squares, what fraction of the total quilt block is shaded?

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