
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]


system
**Q2.** Let be given a parallegogram  $ABCD$  with the area of  $12 \ \text{cm}^2$ . The line through  $A$  and the midpoint  $M$  of  $BC$  mects  $BD$  at  $N.$  Compute the area of the quadrilateral  $MNDC.$ \[(A) \; 4 \text{cm}^2; \qquad (B) \; 5 \text{cm}^2; \qquad (C ) \; 6 \text{cm}^2; \qquad (D) \; 7 \text{cm}^2;  \qquad (E) \; \text{None of the above.}\]

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