If a class is declared as public and contains a protected method, which of the following statements accurately describes the accessibility of that protected method?

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Protected methods cannot invoke public methods from within their own scope.The method can only be accessed inside its own class and by its subclasses.You are not allowed to define methods with lower visibility than the class they belong to.The method is accessible both within its own class and by all other classes located in the same package.The protected method is accessible from any class regardless of package or subclass relationship.

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A protected method in a public class can be accessed from inside the class itself as well as by any other class within the same package. It is not limited to subclasses only, nor is it accessible from classes outside the package unless they are subclasses.