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Algebra Difficulty 2.0 Junior Find the answer United Kingdom

Tom had ten sparklers of the same size. Each sparkler took 2 minutes to burn down completely. He lit them one at a time, starting each one when the previous one had one tenth of the time left to burn. How long did it take for all ten sparklers to burn down?

(A) $18$ minutes and $20$ seconds (B) $18$ minutes and $12$ seconds (C) $18$ minutes (D) $17$ minutes (E) $16$ minutes and $40$ seconds

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