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A model is prompted with chain-of-thought exemplars for a math word problem. Greedy decoding gives the answer 26. With self-consistency, six reasoning paths are sampled instead:

Path Final answer Length-normalized probability of the path
1 18 0.44
2 26 0.52
3 18 0.40
4 14 0.47
5 18 0.43
6 26 0.49

Aggregating by majority vote over the final answers, which answer does self-consistency return?

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