
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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Four friends are dining in a restaurant where there are three choices of meals. Two friends order the pizza and two order the burger. The waiter serves the four meals in random order. Find the number of ways in which the waiter could serve the meal types to these four friends so that exactly two friends receive the type of meal ordered by them.

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