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Little's Law for concurrency

Using Little's Law (L = λ × W), if a service handles 2000 rps (λ) with mean latency 50 ms (W), roughly how many concurrent requests are in flight?
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  1. 1100 (2000 × 0.05)
  2. 210
  3. 32000
  4. 440

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