Interchangeable Phrases

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Answer:

Yes, a parent can have any number of children. But child can have only one parent.

Interchangeable Phrases

There are three sets of phrases for describing inheritance relationships: parent/child, base class/derived class, superclass/subclass. Programmers use all three sets interchangebly.

pairs of terms

QUESTION 4:

Can a parent class inherit characteristics from its child class?

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