
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]


system
You own 8 shirts, 4 pairs of pants, and 8 hats. The pants come in tan, black, blue, and gray. The shirts and hats come in those colors, plus white, yellow, red, and green. You refuse to wear an outfit where all three items are the same color or where any two items of the same type (e.g., two shirts or two hats) are the same color. How many choices for outfits, consisting of one shirt, one hat, and one pair of pants, do you have?

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