What does this Food sign tell a driver about the road ahead?
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A.
A restaurant or other place to eat is available ahead. Correct
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B.
A rest area with picnic tables lies ahead.
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C.
Overnight lodging is offered near this exit.
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D.
Fuel can be purchased at the next exit.
The answer is "A restaurant or other place to eat is available ahead."
The blue Food sign, a white fork and knife inside a circle, points to a restaurant or other place to eat off the highway ahead. The rest-area answer is the reach: a driver who groups every blue roadside services sign into a single 'rest stop' bucket picks it, without noticing the fork-and-knife icon that reserves this sign for dining.
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B. A rest area with picnic tables lies ahead.
Rest area signs carry a picnic-table or building icon, not a fork and knife, and are a separate blue service symbol. This answer treats every blue services sign as a rest stop notice instead of reading the fork-and-knife as dining.
C. Overnight lodging is offered near this exit.
Lodging is marked by its own bed-icon service sign; the D9-8 fork-and-knife means food, not a place to sleep. This answer swaps the fork-and-knife for the bed symbol that marks lodging, so reads a food sign as a hotel notice.
D. Fuel can be purchased at the next exit.
Gas symbols on blue services signs use a fuel pump icon; the fork-and-knife on D9-8 is specific to food service. This answer assumes anything blue on a highway service sign points a driver to a filling station.
This question tests your knowledge of Guide Signs on the roads of every US state . Source: Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, sign D9-8 (Food)..
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