What color are service signs?
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A.
Green with white letters
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B.
Blue with white letters or symbols Correct
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C.
Yellow with black symbols
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D.
Orange with black letters
The answer is "Blue with white letters or symbols"
Service signs are blue with white letters or symbols and mark rest areas, gas stations, camping, and medical facilities. Picking orange in D reaches for the color a driver learns first to notice at the roadside, so any panel flagging something off the pavement gets sorted there.
The traps in the wrong answers
A. Green with white letters
Green is reserved for destination signs, which show direction and distance to a place, not the location of a service. This answer applies the destination-panel color to every roadside sign a driver relies on to find something.
C. Yellow with black symbols
Yellow is used for warning signs, which flag a hazard or a special rule ahead. This answer sorts any symbol-bearing sign into yellow because warning symbols are the most familiar shape a driver has learned to notice.
D. Orange with black letters
Orange is used for work area signs, where people are at work on or near the roadway. This answer reaches for orange because work-zone signs are the color a driver learns first to notice at the roadside, so any panel flagging something off the pavement gets sorted there.
This question tests your knowledge of Road Signs in New York. Source: New York State Driver's Manual, "Service Signs," p.30..
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