another way to describe splitting the root is to say that -node is split into three nodes following node splitthe search for the insertion point continues down the tree in figure the data item with key of is inserted into the appropriate leaf figure insertions into tree splitting on the way down notice thatbecause all full nodes are split on the way downa split can' cause an effect that ripples back up through the tree the parent of any node that' being split is guaranteed not to be fulland can therefore accept data item without itself needing to be split of courseif this parent already had two children when its child was splitit will