
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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In the ancient Chinese book "Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art," there is a problem recorded as follows: "During the Qingming Festival outing to the park, a total of eight boats were used. Each large boat holds six people, each small boat holds four people, and 38 students filled the boats. Please determine the number of large and small boats." If we let $x$ represent the number of small boats, the equation can be written as ______.

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