What is the product of 0.8 and 0.5?

To find the product of 0.8 and 0.5, you multiply the two numbers together. When multiplying decimals, you can ignore the decimal points initially and multiply the numbers as if they were whole numbers.

Calculating 8 times 5 gives you 40. After that, you need to count the total number of decimal places in the original numbers. Both 0.8 and 0.5 each have one decimal place. Therefore, when you multiply them together, you will have two decimal places in the final result.

Thus, you take the result of 40 and place the decimal point two places from the right, which gives you 0.40. This number can also be expressed as 0.4, making it the correct product of 0.8 and 0.5.