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Old Feb 6, 2009 | 7:13 am
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slawecki
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this question is really a question that requires use of perturbation theoryto answer.

median time to airport is an hour. average time is an hour 6 minutes.

9 times out of 10, one makes it in an hour. the tenth time, one makes the trip in two hours.

the two hours is probably an extreme, but dc has notorious traffic problems, and very few alternatives in case of a problem.
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