Ch. 11 Q6 Problem 11-6 (Static)Avis Company is a car rental company that is located three miles from the Los Angeles airport (LAX). Avis is dispatching a bus from itsoffices to the airport every 2 minutes. The average traveling time (round-trip) is 20 minutes.a. How many Avis buses are traveling to and from the airport? (Do not round Intermediate calculations.)Number of busesb. The branch manager wants to improve the service and suggests dispatching buses every 0.5 minutes. She argues that this willreduce the average traveling time from the airport to the Avis offices to 2.5 minutes. Is she correct?O YesO NoO It depends on the time of day.O There Is Insufficient Information to answer this question

Formulae used: According to Little’s Law: Inventory=Through put rate × Flow time

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