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You hear someone make the following comment: “A blueprint is a design for a house. A carpenter can use the blueprint to build the house. If the carpenter wishes, he or she can build several identical houses from the same blueprint.” Think of this as a metaphor for classes and objects. Does the blueprint represent a class, or does it represent an object?

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