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A high-frequency trading server experiences an initial latency of m milliseconds. System optimization reduces the latency by 12 milliseconds, a network congestion multiplier increases it by a factor of 6, and a load balancer reduces the result by dividing it into 4 parallel paths.

If each path exhibits 54 milliseconds of latency, what was the initial latency m, in milliseconds?

  1. 24
  2. 36
  3. 44
  4. 48
  5. 216

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