Movie Clip Visible After 5 sec

Hello,
I have 3 Movie clips foam1, foam2, foam3
they have to visible after 5 sec on hit test with scratch movieclip
scratch.onEnterFrame = function() {
    this.startDrag(true);
scratch.onRollOver = function() {
    if (this.hitTest(_root.soap1)) {
    foam1.gotoAndPlay(2);
           else if(this.hitTest(_root.soap2)) {
    foam2.gotoAndPlay(2);
          else if (this.hitTest(_root.soap3)) {
    foam3.gotoAndPlay(2);

scratch.onEnterFrame = function() {
    this.startDrag(true);
scratch.onRollOver = function() {
    if (this.hitTest(_root.soap1)) {
    foam1.gotoAndPlay(2);
setTimeout(5000,visibleF,foam1);
           else if(this.hitTest(_root.soap2)) {
    foam2.gotoAndPlay(2);
setTimeout(5000,visibleF,foam2);
          else if (this.hitTest(_root.soap3)) {
    foam3.gotoAndPlay(2);
setTimeout(5000,visibleF,foam3);
function visibleF(mc:MovieClip):Void{
mc._visible=true;

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