What is Inheritance? Why is it useful in programming? Write a program which has a class Shape with appropriate data members. Derive two other classes, namely Rectangle and Circle from the shape class. The derived classes should have functions to calculate Area of each shape respectively and display to users on screen.

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  1. What is Inheritance? Why is it useful in programming?
  2. Write a program which has a class Shape with appropriate data members. Derive two other classes, namely Rectangle and Circle from the shape class. The derived classes should have functions to calculate Area of each shape respectively and display to users on screen.
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