
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 lathe workshop, parts are turned from steel blanks, one part from one blank. The shavings left after processing three blanks can be remelted to get exactly one blank. How many parts can be made from nine blanks? What about from fourteen blanks? How many blanks are needed to get 40 parts?

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