
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 national quiz competition, $60\%$ of the participants were eliminated after the first round. Only $\frac{1}{4}$ of the remaining participants were still in the competition after the second round. If 30 participants were still in the competition after the second round, how many participants started the competition?

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