If you have 3/8 of a pie that means you have three slices out of a total of 8. so the denominator tells you the total number of pieces.
It can work well here to simplify inside parentheses first.

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Greater than, the highest amount you can get by multiplying 1/2 and a number lower than it, is 1.
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<span>2y/2=5x+1/2
y=5x/2+1/2
no it's not a direct variation because of 1/2</span>