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Edexcel A-Level Further Maths past-paper questions on 1.1 Algorithms and complexity, 2018–2025, with mark schemes and examiner’s reports where available. Add MadAsMaths questions to your practice, or browse them separately by topic and difficulty.
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All 7 questions on Algorithms and complexity, as a list
- June 2025, Decision 1, Q2 (10 marks): 271 828 182 845 904 523 536 028 747 135 The list of ten numbers above is to be sorted into descending order. (a) Perform a quick sort on the list to obtain the
- June 2023, Decision 1, Q3 (8 marks): A D G B E H C F J 32 37 22 34 32 35 41 23 7 7 8 43 45 50 28 21 11 10 30 42 Figure 4 Figure 4 represents a network with nodes, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H and J. The
- June 2022, Decision 1, Q6 (12 marks): The following algorithm determines the number of comparisons made when Prim’s algorithm is applied to Kn Step 1 Start Step 2 Input the value of n Step 3 Let a =
- November 2021, Decision 1, Q6 (10 marks): A B C D E F G H 32 33 75 16 50 17 15 95 30 41 25 10 50 70 105 113 Figure 4 In Figure 4 the weights on the arcs represent distances. (a) (i) Use Dijkstra’s algor
- November 2020, AS Decision 1, Q1 (6 marks): 3.7 2.5 5.4 1.9 2.7 3.2 3.1 2.7 4.2 2.0 (a) Use the first‑fit bin packing algorithm to determine how the numbers listed above can be packed into bins of size 8.
- June 2019, Decision 1, Q1 (8 marks): 2.1 1.7 3.0 1.9 3.2 1.2 3.3 1.4 1.5 0.2 (a) Use the first-fit bin packing algorithm to determine how the numbers listed above can be packed into bins of size 5
- June 2019, AS Decision 1, Q2 (7 marks): The following algorithm produces a numerical approximation for the integral I = A B∫ x4 dx Step 1 Start Step 2 Input the values of A, B and N Step 3 Let H = (B
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