Part A Refer to your Expeditions in Reading book for a complete version of this text. Which statement is a main idea of “Dorothy Vaughan Biography”? A.She was an educator before…

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Part A

Refer to your Expeditions in Reading book for a complete version of this text.

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

A.She was an educator before joining NACA.

B.Dorothy is known as a pioneer in her work at NASA.

C.She helps write a manual about how machines do math.

D.Dorothy works with both white and black women.

Question 2
Part B
Which quotation from the text best supports the answer to Part A?

A.“Vaughan came to the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory in 1943, during the height of World War II, leaving her position as the math teacher…”

B.“In 1958, when the NACA made the transition to NASA, segregated facilities…were abolished.”

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

D.“…she collaborated with other well-known (white) computers like Vera Huckel and Sara Bullock on projects such as compiling a handbook for algebraic methods for calculating machines.”