Part a

which statement is a main idea of “dorothy vaughan biography”?

she write a manual about how machines do math.

she was an educator before joining naca.

dorothy works with both white and black women.

dorothy is known as a pioneer in her work at nasa.
question 2
part b

which quotation from the text best supports the answer to part 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…”

“…vaughan was both a respected mathematician and nasa's first african-american manager.”

“in 1958, when the naca made the transition to nasa, segregated facilities…were abolished.”

“…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.”