Question 327267
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 {{{a^2+b^2 = c^2}}} 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 {{{5^2+b^2 = 10^2}}}. Subtract 5^2 from both sides to get {{{b^2 = 75}}}. Now square root both sides to get {{{b=8.66feet}}}, 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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