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Katherine Johnson Multiplication Word Problems

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Celebrate Black History Month while practicing multiplication and multi-step problem solving inspired by mathematician Katherine Johnson. This short quiz (9 questions) includes single- and multi-step multiplication problems, table interpretation, estimation, and a short reflection connecting math to real-world space work.

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Katherine calculates distances for a flight plan. A spacecraft travels at $7\times10$ kilometers per minute. How many kilometers does it travel in $6$ minutes?

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2.

An engineering team checks $8$ instruments each day. How many instruments are checked in $5$ days?

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Using dozens: If in $3$ minutes the team completes $4$ dozens of checks each minute, how many individual checks did they complete in total?

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4.

Which two calculations would help estimate total fuel containers needed for a mission? (Select two.)

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5.

A launch simulation uses a grid where each square is $5$ units and the grid has $6$ rows with $7$ squares each. What is the total unit count represented by the full grid?

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6.

Katherine checks $9$ data sets each day for $7$ days. How many data sets in total?

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7.

If Katherine needed to scale a calculation by a factor of $10$, multiplying by $10$ always makes the result ten times larger.

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8.

A team estimates time: one calculation takes about $18$ seconds. About how many calculations can the team do in $5$ minutes? (Use estimation: $5$ minutes = $300$ seconds.)

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9.

Katherine Johnson used careful multiplication and tables to help plan spacecraft trajectories. In one short paragraph, explain why checking multiplication work carefully matters when planning something important like a rocket flight.