Proportion of defective items coming off a production line

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A quality control engineer is interested in estimating the proportion of defective items coming off a production line. In a sample of 300 items, 27 are defective. The lower limit for a 90% confidence interval for the proportion of defectives from this production line would be _____ (to 3 decimal places).

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