Compare length of longest side of quadrilateral with sum of other sides

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Discover, state, and prove a theorem that compares the length of the longest side of a quadrilateral with the sum of the lengths of the other three sides.

I attempted by first drawing a diagonal connecting two vertices of the quadrilateral, and attempting to use the triangle inequality theorem to relate the largest side with the sum of the lengths of the others. I end up with the two equations, A + D > E and B + C > E, and after adding them together, I end up with:

A + B + C + D > 2E,

where A is the longest side, B, C, D are the other sides, and E is the diagonal I drew. I don't know where to go from here.

Any help is appreciated.