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You and your friends go camping and put up a tent on camp grounds. the tent is shaped like an isosceles triangle. the sides of the tent are 5 feet each and the opening of the tent is 6 feet wide. how tall is the tent

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Fortunately half the isosceles triangle forms a Pythagorean triple with 3, h, 5
h = 4 feet tall
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