The altitude of the triangular face is perpendicular to and bisects the base so you have a right triangle with the altitude and 1/2 the base forming the legs and the slant height the hypotenuse of the right triangle. So you need to be given the altitude and base or information which allows you to calculate their values
How do you calculate the slant height of the given square pyramid?
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