Delaying statements

I've read some of the topics on delaying statements in this
forum, but am still confused. I want to use an alpha tween on a
movieclip and once the tween finished, I want the movieclip to wait
5 seconds before it reverses tween. My code is as follows:
Thank you in advance!

Shandy, I appreciate the time and effort you put into
responding to my posting. Thank you. I'm a newbee to AS, so I don't
quite understand all the lines in the code you provided me. I kept
researching this issue after submitting my posting and was able to
use the code below that seems to do the same thing.
I've now ran into another issue :). Now that I have mc_1
fading in/out, I want it to fade in, wait for 5 seconds, fade out,
and wait for 20 seconds before looping. Currently, the amount of
time that it waits between fading in and fading out is the same. In
other words, I want mc_1 to be fully visible for 5 seconds and once
it fades out, fully invisible for 20 seconds, and then loop again.
I hope this makes sense.
Thanks again Shandy.

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