Ann Chovies, owner of the Perfect Pasta Pizza Parlor, uses exactly $12$ pounds of pepperoni each day in preparing pizzas. The owner uses continuous review inventory tracking system. Order costs for pepperoni are $$12\mathrm{.}00$ per order, and carrying costs are $2$ cents per pound per day. Lead time for each order is $6$ days. Assume the pizza parlor works $365$ days a year.

If the owner were to order $108$ pounds of pepperoni at a time, what would the average inventory level be$?$

Group of answer choices

$240$ pounds

$54$ pounds

$120$ pounds

$96$ pounds

$72$ pounds