Consider a production line with five stations. Station 1 can produce a unit in 18 minutes. Station 2 can produce a unit in 20 minutes. Station 3 has two identical machines, each of which can process a unit in 24 minutes (each unit only needs to be processed on one of the two machines). Station 4 can produce a unit in 10 minutes. Station 5 can produce a unit in 16 minutes. Which station is the bottleneck station?

Select one:

a. Station 3

b. Station 2

c. Station 5

d. Station 4

e. Station 1