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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 60 m above the ground, and the efficiency of the pump is 40%, how much electric power is consumed by the pump?
(Take `g = 10 m s^(-2)`)

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