Read this passage from "The More You Know, the Smarter You Are?" One story to illustrate this comes from history, when Thomas Jefferson was
designing the University of Virginia, and the architects were designing the layouts of
the walkways. Jefferson's solution was to plant grass and wait to see where the grass
was most worn down so that they would build the walkways where people naturally
wanted to walk.
What does the context of this passage suggest is the most likely meaning of the
underlined word layouts?
a. the way things are arranged
b. the tools needed to build
c. the materials for building