
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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A track and field team has 48 male athletes and 36 female athletes. Given a stratified sampling method is used to draw a sample of 21 from all the athletes, determine the number of male athletes drawn.

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