
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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Each day, John eats $30\%$ of the cookies that are in his box at the beginning of the day. At the end of the third day, 28 cookies remained. How many cookies were in the box originally?

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