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Date May 2022 Marks available 2 Reference code 22M.1.HL.TZ0.10
Level HL Paper 1 Time zone no time zone
Command term Define Question number 10 Adapted from N/A

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Define the term child in relation to a binary tree.

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Child (is either null or) is a node that has up to two references /links to other nodes;
and has (only) one predecessor (parent) node;

“Child” is every node in a binary tree which is descendant/ the node which has a link from its predecessor (the node which is a predecessor of any node is called as parent node);
The child node can have up to two descendants (child nodes);
(All the nodes except the node which is the origin of the binary tree data structure (called root) are child nodes;)

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Topic 5: Abstract data structures » 5.1 Abstract data structures
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