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An electric heater is used in a room of total wall area `150m^2` to maintain a temperature is `-5^@C`. The innermost layer is of wood of thichness 2.0 cm, the middle layer is of cement of thickness 1.0 cm and the outer-most layer is of brick of thickness 20 cm. Find the power of the electric heater. Assume heat to flow only through the walls. The thermal conductivities of wood, cement and brick are `0.150`,`0.175` and `1.0 W//m^(@C)`, respectively.

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