MacBook Pro Random Shutdown

I bought a new MacBook Pro about a month ago and everything was working fine until last Friday when my MBP suddenly shut down. I thought it was because I was away from the computer for a while and it was on battery save mode, but when I tried to boot it up again, it shut down after about 10 minutes. I turned it on again and it lasted for another 15 minutes before it shut down again. I'm not really sure what I should do at this point - is this a common issue?

Were you on battery power? AC? What's your remaining battery capacity?

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