A camper attaches a rope to the top of her tent to give it more support. She stakes the rope, which is 8 ft long, to the ground at a distance of 6 feet from the middle of her tent. About how tall is her tent? An image shows the tent, the staked rope, and the measurements as a right triangle. The height of the triangle is unknown. The base of the triangle is 6 feet. The hypotenuse is 8 feet.

To answer this you can use the Pythagorean Theorem. It states that a squared plus b squares equals c squared. C is the length of the hypotenuse and a and b are the other 2 sides. Please see the attached work to see how to answer this. The approximate height of the tent is 5.3 feet.