Consider the Partial Date Class Below (Method Signatures and Instance

question 21

Multiple Choice

Consider the partial Date class below (method signatures and instance variables) which represents a day of the year: What is wrong with this design?

• A)You cannot return this from a method.
• B)It uses lastDayOfMonth, a private method of the class.
• C)It has the side effect of changing the Date.
• D)Since it returns a Date other than this one, the class is not consistent.

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