SOLUTION: The enttrance to a tent is the shape of an equilateral triangle. If the base of the tent is 10 feet wide, how tall is the tent? I must show the 5-6 steps of problem solving.

Question 327267: The enttrance to a tent is the shape of an equilateral triangle. If the base of the tent is 10 feet wide, how tall is the tent?
I must show the 5-6 steps of problem solving.
Thank you to anyone that can help me out.
Answer by jvan(28) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
I'm not sure what 5-6 steps your teacher wants you to use specifically, so I'll make up my own steps ^o^
First you should draw the picture. you know the sides of the triangle are all the same length, 10 feet. If you draw a vertical line through the triangle, you notice that it is made up to two right triangles. The base of the right triangle is 5 feet (half of 10 feet) and the hypothenuse is 10 feet. To get the third side of the triangle (the height of the tent) you can use the pythagorean theorem since this is a right triangle. Plug in a=5 and c=10 (notice that we have to plug 10 into c and not b because 10 is the hypothenuse, the longest side of the triangle). After plugging these in you get . Subtract 5^2 from both sides to get . Now square root both sides to get , the height of the tent! ^0^!! I hope this will help. Sorry I can't write them in the steps that you want. But I have confident you will be able to rewrite this =)
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