
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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1. From the 5 members of the class committee, 3 are to be selected to serve as the class study committee member, entertainment committee member, and sports committee member, respectively. Among them, members A and B cannot serve as the entertainment committee member. How many different ways are there to select these positions? (Answer with a number)
2. A city's car license plate number consists of 2 English letters followed by 4 digits, where the 4 digits are all different. How many such license plate numbers are there in total? (Write the expression only)

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