Thanks Denial & Desertfox,
Desertfox,
You'll have to forgive my ignorance. It's 10yrs since I did HNC Building and 20 years since I did 'O' level maths!!
The term 'quadratic equation' rings faint bells somewhere in the depths of my very dodgy memory. However, I haven't got the foggiest idea...
I have written an Excel spreadsheet to solve the equation
fc/Pc + fbc/(Pbc(1-fc/Pe))<=1
It works by using the 'Goalseek' command in a macro to make the answer 0.99 (i.e. <1) by varying the value of fc. HOWEVER depending on where you start with the value of fc it can find up to 3 solutions to...