
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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Find the area of triangle $ABC$ below.

[asy]
unitsize(1inch);
pair A, B, C;
A = (0,0);
B= (sqrt(2),0);
C = (0,sqrt(2));
draw (A--B--C--A, linewidth(0.9));
draw(rightanglemark(B,A,C,3));
label("$A$",A,S);
label("$B$",B,S);
label("$C$",C,N);
label("$8$",(B+C)/2,NE);
label("$45^\circ$",(0,0.7),E);
[/asy]

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