Those lazy, hazy days of summer are coming to an end in the Northern Hemisphere! Don’t you wish you could spend another month or two doing what Lee is doing in this free scenario? (What is he doing, anyway?) What do you notice in the story below? What are you wondering about? Leave a comment to tell us your thoughts!
Lee’s Lawn Chair
Specialist Lee Alejandre, who is 6 feet tall, had leave time from the Army, some of which he spent basking in the sun at Swarthmore College in a couple of different chairs:
| dimension | larger chair | smaller chair |
| width of seat | 57 3/4″ | 21″ |
| length of arm | 80″ | 29 1/2″ |
| front leg | 26 1/8″ | 9 1/2″ |
I wonder how you got your child to pose….
I wonder if you bribed him…
I think I would like to figure out the proportions involved here…
And is it always sunny at Swarthmore?
They did indeed bribe me.
I enjoyed the beer very much.
Haha! That is quite the chair. I wonder if I can find a San Jose handyman or someone in the greater area to fix it after my big rear end plops down in it and breaks it?
Don’t judge me, but I thought we were supposed to wonder things and then work on solving the problem……..
I’m not sure if we can solve the problem — I don’t actually see a question but I agree that the thought is to wonder things! To add to the wonderings folks have thought of so far, here’s something I just wondered: I wonder if the larger chair is twice as big as the smaller chair.
The reason I’m wondering this is that as I look at the photo on the left, it looks like Lee’s “knees to feet” part of his legs are about half of his “waist to feet” — or, in other words, about half of his leg length is beyond the edge of the chair. When I look at the photo on the right, all of his legs fit on the chair. I also looked at where Lee’s head is on the small chair and then again on the large chair.
I wonder how I might use the given measurements to decide if the larger chair is two times as big as the smaller chair.
I wonder how much more paint is needed for the large chair compared to the small chair.