Using shunt capacitors, the power factor of a 3-phase, 4 kV induction motor (drawing 390 kVA at 0.77 pf lag) is to be corrected to 0.85 pf lag. The line current of the capacitor bank, in A, is ________ (round off to one decimal place).

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