Find the length of time above which we find 20% of the slowest trips

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A lawyer goes every day from his home in the suburbs to his downtown office. The average time for a one-way trip is 24 minutes, with a standard deviation of 3.8 minutes. Assume that the distribution of travel times is normally distributed. Find the length of time above which we find 20% of the slowest trips.

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