Question

This is the map of a town.
According to the map, the number of schools in the town is

A. 4
B. 3
C. 5
D. 2

Answer 1

Hint: First, understand the given shapes for each of the infrastructure on the right side of the map. Then analyse the map and count the number of the shapes that represent schools. The number of shapes will be equal to the number of schools in the town.

Complete step-by-step answer:
We can see some shapes given on the right of the map. Let us first understand these notations or symbols used for different buildings shown in the above map.
As we can see, to show the location of a hospital, a square is used. For the grounds, a triangle is used. The general stores are shown by parallelograms and the schools are shown by rectangles.
According to the map, the town is being divided into nine sections (areas).
In the first section, we can see only 1 rectangle. This means that in this area there is 1 school only.
In the second section of the first row, we can see 2 parallelograms, 1 rectangle and 1 square This means that in this area there are 2 general stores, 1 school and 1 hospital.
In the third section, there is 1 triangle, which means that there is 1 ground in this area.
In the fourth section, there is no shape. This means that this area contains no infrastructure.
In the fifth section, there are 2 triangles and 1 parallelogram. Therefore, there are 2 grounds and 1 general store here.
In the sixth and the seventh sections, we can see that both have 1 rectangle. This means that both the areas have 1 school.
In the eight section, there are 2 parallelograms, 1 rectangle and 1 triangle, which means that there are 2 general stores, 1 school and 1 ground.
Lastly, in the ninth section, there is 1 parallelogram and 1 square. Therefore, this section contains 1 general store and 1 hospital.
Now, we have studied the whole map of the town and if we count the number of schools in this town then the count is 5.
Therefore, there are $5$ schools in this town.
Hence, the correct option is C.
So, the correct answer is “Option C”.

Note: We can see that there are six general stores, four grounds and two hospitals in the town. The given town has a good number of schools and general stores and they are well distributed too. However, the town has only two hospitals, which is good enough for the well-being of the people of the town.