Question

1st ANSWER WILL GET 100 PTS!

Part A

Which statement is a main idea of “Dorothy Vaughn Biography”?

She was a high school educator before joining NACA.


She helps write a manual about how machines do math.
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Dorothy works equally with white and African-American women throughout her career.

Dorothy deserves credit as a pioneer for her accomplishments at NASA.
Part B.
Which quotation from the text best supports the answer to Part A?

Responses

“Vaughan came to the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory in 1943...leaving her position as the math teacher…”


“…she collaborated with other well-known (white) computers...on projects such as compiling a handbook for algebraic methods for calculating machines.”

“…Vaughan was both a respected mathematician and NASA's first African-American manager.”


“Dorothy Vaughan was assigned to the segregated West Area Computing unit, an all-black group of female mathematicians."

Answer 1

C: Dorothy known as a pioneer in her work at NASC.

This statement is a main idea of the "Dorothy Vaughan Biography".

Step-by-step explanation:

Dorothy Vaughan was a great mathematician and she worked as a teacher before she joined NASA. She was NASA’s first African-American manager.

She performed complex data analyzing for the aerospace engineers. The data that they provided became very critical for the space programs of U.S. All the African American women who used to work here were referred to as “human computers”. Initially, blacks were treated every differently in NASA (then NACA). They even had separate bathrooms and food facilities to use. But Vaughan became the first black female supervisor. Thus, she was considered pioneer at her work.