
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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Maria answers 15 questions correctly and 10 questions incorrectly in a high school math contest with a scoring system that awards 1 point for each correct answer and penalizes 0.25 points for each incorrect answer. Calculate Maria's total score.

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