
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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Given 300 swimmers compete in a 50-meter freestyle event with 8 lanes, each allowing 8 swimmers to compete simultaneously, and the top two swimmers in each race advance to the next round, determine the number of races required to find the champion swimmer.

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