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Question from aqilah, a student:

how to find the base length of a isosceles triangle if only the sides are given?

Aqilah,

The angle at the top must also be given; otherwise the base length can be any number between 0 and twice the given side length.

Also have alook at Stephen's response to this question a while ago.

Chris

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