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Algebra Difficulty 3.0 AMC 10/12 Find the answer United Kingdom

In a sequence, each term after the first two terms is the mean of all the terms which come before that term. The first term is 8 and the tenth term is 26. What is the second term?

(A) $17$ (B) $18$ (C) $44$ (D) $52$ (E) $68$

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