Cubist
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You're welcome. Your method would have been excellent if the question was slightly different! I was just concerned that S.A.M would copy it and then just disappear from the forum. I certainly don't want to put you off helping. It can be very rewarding! You're right that it isn't good for people to become too frustrated with a problem, but I don't think that S.A.M has been working on this continuously for all this time (at least I very much hope not)Ok, that´s the reason. But that's not incorrect math. It's a mistake. Thanks for pointing it.
Some of the posts here aren't from students, like carpenters trying to build a particular shape, etc. It's OK to provide a more direct answer in that scenario.
It's interesting that for some reason your approach gets the correct final answer, I haven't worked out why yet!