Systematic listing
What Systematic listing means in Mathematics GCSE, as defined for AQA, Pearson Edexcel.
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
A method that ensures all possible outcomes are found without repetition or omission, for example by fixing the first item and cycling through all options for the second.
Listing outcomes in an order that shows a clear pattern, holding the first choice while the second varies, rather than in no particular order.
Finding all possible outcomes of a situation by working in a fixed, repeatable order rather than writing items at random.
Building a combined possibility space with a two-way table or an ordered list so no outcome is missed or repeated.
Topics that use Systematic listing
- Probability (AQA GCSE)
- Structure and calculation (AQA GCSE)
- Number - Structure and calculation (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
- Probability (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Sample space
- denominator
- Equally likely outcomes
- equivalent fractions
- Exact value
- expected outcomes
- Formal written methods
- fraction
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