The county clerk's office is writing a program to search their database for citizen records based on information about that citizen such as first name, last name, age, etc. given below is a segment of pseudocode that should find the record of every citizen over the age of 50 in the county. the code makes use of the functions getageof and getnameof, which are used to retrieve the age and name of a citizen from a record which is inputted.

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.