You have heard about a new online chat service that had become quite popular and has very tempting features but regrettably you can't afford it. however, a friend of yours has just left the company which is developing this service, and he shared some of the source files with you that are part of the backend, and they seem suspicious… especially these two files:

Which of the following statements is false? a. a class can directly inherit from class object. b. if the class you're inheriting from declares instance variables as private, the inherited class can access those instance variables directly. c. a class's instance variables are normally declared private to enforce good software engineering. d. it's often much more efficient to create a class by inheriting from a similar class than to create the class by writing every line of code the new class requires.