Minimum spanning trees: Edexcel A‑Level Further Maths questions
Edexcel A-Level Further Maths past-paper questions on 2.2 Minimum spanning trees, 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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- June 2025, AS Decision 1, Q1 (7 marks): 1 16 10 25 30 13 12 28 22 23 20 The list of ten numbers above is to be sorted into ascending order. (a) Carry out a bubble sort, starting at the left-hand end o
- June 2024, Decision 1, Q2 (13 marks): The table below represents a network of shortest distances, in miles, to travel between nine castles, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H and J. A B C D E F G H J A – 50 59
- June 2023, Decision 1, Q5 (13 marks): A D G B E 34 18 23 21 33 20 50 12 8 65 42 10 17 22 48 H C F J Figure 5 [The total weight of the network is 423] Direct roads between nine towns, A, B, C, D, E,
- June 2023, AS Decision 1, Q3 (11 marks): A D G J B E H C F 50 61 23 34 41 24 49 15 43 11 32 45 28 40 58 6 6 30 Figure 2 Figure 2 represents a network of train tracks. The number on each edge represents
- 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 =
- June 2022, AS Decision 1, Q1 (9 marks): 55 44 34 59 28 37 41 52 33 42 47 The list of eleven numbers shown above is to be sorted into ascending order. (a) Carry out a quick sort to produce the sorted l
- November 2021, Decision 1, Q3 (8 marks): A B C D E F G H A – 24 42 48 34 37 32 22 B 24 – 40 35 30 41 39 44 C 42 40 – 21 26 45 38 36 D 48 35 21 – 32 37 29 27 E 34 30 26 32 – 34 40 28 F 37 41 45 37 34 –
- November 2020, Decision 1, Q1 (6 marks): The table below shows the lengths, in km, of the roads in a network connecting seven towns, A, B, C, D, E, F and G. A B C D E F G A – 24 – 22 35 – – B 24 – 25 2
- November 2020, AS Decision 1, Q3 (11 marks): A B C D E F G H 30 25 8 42 15 23 10 12 2x + 10 3x – 2 17 29 20 7 Figure 2 [The weight of the network is 5x + 246] (a) Explain why it is not possible to draw a g
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