
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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A frog is standing in a center of a  $3 \times 3$  grid of lilypads. Each minute, the frog chooses a square that shares exactly one side with their current square uniformly at random, and jumps onto the lilypad on their chosen square. The frog stops jumping once it reaches a lilypad on a corner of the grid. What is the expected number of times the frog jumps?


*2021 CCA Math Bonanza Lightning Round #3.2*

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