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In a school, there are 30 students in the first year and 40 students in the second year who have chosen the basketball course. A stratified sampling method is used to draw a sample of size $n$ from these 70 students. It is known that 6 students were drawn from the first-year students. Therefore, \_\_\_ students should be drawn from the second-year students.

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