P-Cubed uses GPS to track its delivery vans - Edexcel - GCSE Computer Science - Question 6 - 2018 - Paper 1

One inefficiency in executing the algorithm with this dataset is that it does not take advantage of any potential sorting in the data. Since the algorithm processes each element in a random order and compares it against the threshold (300), it must examine all items in the list regardless of whether there are any items above 300. If the data were sorted in ascending order, the algorithm could stop searching once it encounters the first number greater than 300, thus saving time by not checking the remaining numbers.