SOLUTION: Please help me solve thsi word problem A tent has slanted sides of a tent 11 feet long that makes an isosceles triangle having a base of 6.Determine the height of the tent.

Question 867352: Please help me solve thsi word problem A tent has slanted sides of a tent 11 feet long that makes an isosceles triangle having a base of 6.Determine the height of the tent.
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The altitude forms two right triangles, congruent to each other, and the height is one of the legs. One leg is half of 6 or 3; and the hypotenuse is 11. Height?
Let height be y.
Pythagorean Theorem: .
Take the rest....

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