Pipe A can fill an empty tank in 20 minutes and pipe B can fill the same tank in 30 minutes. Both pipes are opened together, but pipe A is turned off after some time, and pipe B alone fills the rest of the tank. If the tank becomes exactly full 18 minutes after the pipes were first opened, after how many minutes was pipe A turned off?
8 minutes
6 minutes
9 minutes
12 minutes
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