five tools used for setting out

Short answer — five tools used for setting out:

1. Steel tape measure
2. Pegs (stakes) and a string line
3. Builder's square (used with the 3–4–5 method)
4. Dumpy level (or spirit level)
5. Plumb bob

Other answers that are usually accepted: theodolite / total station, profile boards, boning rods, marking paint.

What "setting out" means

Setting out is transferring the lines of a drawing onto the actual ground — fixing exactly where the corners, walls and levels of a building will go before digging starts. So the tools you list must do one of three jobs: measure distance, fix a position, or check level / square / vertical.

Key tools and the job each one does

• Steel tape measure — measures the distances taken from the plan (lengths, widths, offsets from a baseline). Long tapes are used because setting-out distances are often 10–30 m.
• Pegs and string line — the peg marks the exact point; the string stretched between pegs shows the straight line of a wall or boundary. This is how a line on paper becomes a line on the ground.
• Builder's square / 3–4–5 method — makes sure corners are exactly 90°. A triangle with sides 3, 4 and 5 units always has a right angle, so measuring 3 m along one line, 4 m along the other, and getting 5 m between the ends proves the corner is square.
• Dumpy level (or spirit level) — transfers a level (height) from a known benchmark to the pegs, so all corners end up at the same height and the building doesn't sit on a slope.
• Plumb bob — a weight on a string that gives a true vertical; used to check that pegs, posts or profile boards stand exactly upright.

How they work together (the usual order)

1. Set a baseline with a tape and pegs, and stretch a string along it.
2. From one end, use the builder's square (3–4–5) to turn a right angle and peg the second line.
3. Measure the plan's dimensions along both lines with the tape, pegging each corner.
4. Check the diagonals: if the two diagonals of the rectangle are equal, all four corners really are 90°.
5. Use the dumpy level to bring every peg to the same height, and the plumb bob to check the pegs are upright.

Check your result

Your list is correct if each tool can be tied to one of these checks: distance (tape), position/line (pegs and string), square (builder's square, or equal diagonals), level (dumpy/spirit level), vertical (plumb bob). If an answer names, for example, a "hammer" or "wheelbarrow", it is equipment but not a setting-out tool — it doesn't measure, mark or check anything.