
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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There are 35 apples in a basket: 8 green, 11 yellow, and 16 red. Alena sequentially removes one apple at a time from the basket. If at any point she has removed fewer green apples than yellow apples, and fewer yellow apples than red apples, she will stop removing more apples from the basket.

(a) What is the maximum number of yellow apples Alena can remove from the basket?

(b) What is the maximum number of apples Alena can remove from the basket?

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