What color is the solid line marking the right edge of the pavement?
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A.
White Correct
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B.
Red
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C.
Green
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D.
Yellow
The answer is "White"
Solid white lines mark the right edge of the pavement, and solid yellow lines mark the left edge of a divided roadway. A driver who learned the two edge colors as a pair sometimes flips them and picks yellow for the right side.
The traps in the wrong answers
B. Red
Red is not the color used for pavement edge lines; right-edge lines are solid white. This answer borrows red from stop signs and painted curbs, where it signals prohibition rather than a pavement edge.
C. Green
Green is not the color used for right-edge lines; the rule names solid white. This answer pulls green from highway guide signs, where drivers see it most, onto a pavement rule that does not use it.
D. Yellow
Yellow marks the left edge of a divided roadway, not the right. This answer confuses which of the two edge-line colors belongs on which side, since the manual teaches the pair side by side.
This question tests your knowledge of Road Markings in Illinois. Source: Illinois Rules of the Road, "Chapter 10: Pavement Markings, Edge Lines," p.79..
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