A carpenter in Jaipur wants to cut a triangular wooden plate. He fixes the base = 10 cm and wants the other two sides to add up to a chosen value S. For the cut to be physically possible as a triangle, which value of S is the smallest that works?

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11 cm. The sum of the other two sides must be strictly greater than the base 10 cm. Among the choices, only 11 cm exceeds 10 cm, so it is the smallest workable value.

A carpenter in Jaipur wants to cut a triangular wooden plate. He fixes the base = 10 cm and wants the other two sides to add up to a chosen value S. For the cut to be physically possible as a triangle, which value of S is the smallest that works?

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