Ruben has two congruent wooden dowels. He cuts one dowel in two in order to have three pieces to make a triangle. Explain why, despite having three sides, Ruben will not be able to make a triangle with his three pieces.

Long division setup showing an incomplete calculation. 12 is in the divisor, 6839 is in the dividend, and 5 hundreds and 6 tens is written in the quotient. 6000 is subtracted from 6839 to give 839. an unknown value represented by a box is being subtracted from 839. what number should be placed in the box to complete the division calculation?