Potential in a Non-Conducting Spherical Shell

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Just wondering if we have a non-conducting spherical shell which is uniformly charged and we know the potential at the centre and the potential at some radius how can we find the radius of the shell?
 

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Give the radius a variable and proceed?
 

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