is it possible to find out the sides of the triangle just based on base and height alone? base is 20 ft and ht is 7 feet. would like to know the right and left sides if they are equal on both sides.

No, unless you know something else, base and height is not enough to know the other two sides.

Yah I figured that, just checking, thank you.

Yes, it is possible to find out the sides of a triangle based on the base and height alone, but only if the triangle is a right-angled triangle. In a right-angled triangle, the base and height form two of the sides, with the hypotenuse being the third side.

In your case, you have a right-angled triangle with a base of 20 feet and a height of 7 feet. To find the lengths of the other two sides, you can use the Pythagorean theorem, which states that in a right-angled triangle, the square of the hypotenuse (longest side) is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides.

So, let's denote the two equal sides as a and b. The base (b) is given as 20 feet, and the height (a) is given as 7 feet. Using the Pythagorean theorem, we can find the length of the hypotenuse (c) as follows:

c^2 = a^2 + b^2

Since the two sides are equal, we can write:

c^2 = 7^2 + 20^2

c^2 = 49 + 400

c^2 = 449

To find the length of the hypotenuse (c), we take the square root of both sides:

c = √449

Therefore, the length of the hypotenuse (c) is approximately 21.18 feet.

Since the triangle is isosceles (having two equal sides) and the base is given as 20 feet, both the left and right sides will have a length of approximately 20 feet.