In order to calculate the product of 0.5 and 10, there are different methods that can be used.
One of them is converting 0.5 into a fraction, and then multiplying the fraction by 10.
So we have:
[tex]\begin{gathered} 0.5=\frac{5}{10}=\frac{1}{2} \\ \\ \frac{1}{2}\cdot10=\frac{10}{2}=5 \end{gathered}[/tex]Therefore the product of 0.5 and 10 is equal to 5.
