Answer :

Given sentence:

Five more than half the input is the output

y is the output, x is the input

To interpret the sentence, we should break it into parts:

-half the input: we half the input

- 5 more than we add 5 to the new input

- the sum of these is the output

The equation that represents the given sentence:

[tex]y\text{ = 5 + }\frac{1}{2}x[/tex]

Answer:

[tex]y\text{ = 5 + }\frac{1}{2}x[/tex]