A pump on the ground floor of a building...

A pump on the ground floor of a building can pump up water to fill a tank of volume `30 m^(3)` in 15 min. If the tank is 40 m above the ground, and the efficiency of the pump is 30%, how much electric power is consumed by the pump?

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`=43.6 kW`

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