This is not mathematics but ok......
soliloquy is when someone on stage speaks to them self as if thinking in their mind, expressing their thoughts and emotions, conveying them to the audience.
The image for this is attached for reference. This problem can be used by the Pythagorean equation. To make solving convenient, let us see only one part of the tent. Hence, one side is half of the tend width which is 16/2ft. Height is 12 ft. The unknown side is the hypotenuse. The answer is:
What is the question? Pythagorean is not too hard. a^2 + b^2 = c^2