Acrobat Forms - javascript to hide/unhide text box if any one of a number of radio buttons is enable

I have a form which I am designing in Acrobat 9 which has a section where there are three questions, each with a pair of radio buttons - one for 'yes' and one for 'no'. They are in the style of a check box (with a tick). I need some help to write some code which will unhide a single field (or multiple fields if I need to use something similar at a later date) if any one of the 'yes' radio buttons is checked. So if all three radio buttons were checked, the field would be hidden but if you then changed your mind and clicked a yes button, the field would be visible.
I am new to this so any help would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks in advance! I hope that i have explained this clearly btw.

For ease of maintenance you might want to make the above script into 2 doucment level JavaScript function. One could set a return value to the result of the caparison and the other could show/hide the text field based on the result. Then a call to the show/hide function could control the show and display of the field(s) and and a call to the function for the results of the comparison could be used anywhere else and not change the field display property.
funciton Test3RB() {
// set logical result based on result of test
var bReslut = ((this.getField("rb1").value == "Y")|(this.getField("rb2").value == "Y") |(this.getField("rb3").value == "Y"));
return bResult; // return value of logical test
} // end funciton
function ShowText() {
// assume field not to be shown
this.getField("textbox").display=display.hidden;
if (Test3RB() ) {
this.getField("textbox").display=display.visible;
} // end if true
return;
} // end ShowText function
You mouse up action for each button could be:
ShowText();
And if you could test the logical value returned by the function somewhere else and did not want to modify the display field:
if(Test3RB() ){
// action for true
} else {
// action for false

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