Given:public class Person { private String name, comment; private int age; public Person(String n, int a, String c) { name = n; age = a; comment = c; } public boolean equals(Object o) { if (! (o instanceof Person)) return false; Person p = (Person)o; return age == p.age && name.equals(p.name); }} What is the appropriate definition of the hashCode method in class Person?

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Given:public class Person {  private String name, comment;  private int age;  public Person(String n, int a, String c) {   name = n; age = a; comment = c;  }  public boolean equals(Object o) {   if (! (o instanceof Person)) return false;   Person p = (Person)o;   return age == p.age && name.equals(p.name);  }} What is the appropriate definition of the hashCode method in class Person?

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Correct Answer is : return name.hashCode() + age * 7;

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