
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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Three siblings, Andy, Alexa, and Aaron, bake 36 cookies. Aaron eats a number of cookies that is twice the number of cookies eaten by his brother Andy. Alexa eats the remaining cookies. If the siblings finish all 36 cookies, what is the maximum number of cookies that the brother, Andy, could have eaten?

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