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Given the provided code which represents a simple inheritance hierarchy in Java, fill the blanks to have the right access to the methods. There are two classes involved - a parent class 'Animal' and a child class 'Dog'. The 'Animal' class has a method 'saySomething()'. It is inherited by the 'Dog' class which has its own method 'bark()'. This method should call 'saySomething()' method and append the string ' Woof!' to it. Complete the code such that the method 'saySomething()' of 'Animal' class is correctly accessible from the 'Dog' class and the program prints 'Animal sound! Woof!' when executed.

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public class  {
     String saySomething() {
        return "Animal sound!";
    }
}

public class   Animal {
    public String bark() {
        return saySomething() + " Woof!";
    }
}

public class Test {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Dog dog = new Dog();
        System.out.println(dog.bark());
    }
}
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