If, within one try statement you want to have catch clauses of the following types, in which order should they appear in your program: (1) Exception
(2) IllegalArgumentException
(3) RuntimeException
(4) Throwable
A) 1, 2, 3, 4
B) 2, 3, 1, 4
C) 4, 1, 3, 2
D) 3, 1, 2, 4

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When writing catch clauses, it is important to order them from most specific to least specific. IllegalArgumentException and RuntimeException are both subclasses of Exception, so they should come after Exception in the catch block. Throwable should be the last catch block since it is the parent class of all exceptions. Therefore, the correct order is (2) IllegalArgumentException, (3) RuntimeException, (1) Exception, (4) Throwable, which corresponds to choice B.

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