Amanda is using wire to construct a triangle for an art project. She has 4 inches of blue wire and 8 inches of green wire. Amanda is going to buy some purple wire for the third side of her
Triangle. She needs to buy enough wire to make a triangle, but does not want to have any wire
left over. What is the least amount of purple wire she could buy?

(05.02)a farmer has decided to divide his land area in half in order to plant soy and corn. calculate the area of the entire area so he knows how much soil is needed. a parallelogram with a height of 6 yards and side length 9 yards. the height forms a triangle with the slanted side of the rhombus with a base of 2.5 yards. rhombus is split into a soy half and a corn half. each bag of soil covers 40 square yards. how many bags should the farmer purchase?