
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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Miss Johnson's students were trying to perform an addition with two positive integers. Alex subtracted by mistake and got 8. Sam mistakenly multiplied them and got 168. What should have been the correct sum of the two integers?

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