What is 40% of 80?
Can someone help with question and do an explanation on how you got the answer.

40% of 80 is 32

Step-by-step explanation:

its better to google the steps im not very good at explaining

the mistake in the pattern is that :

b. the decimal point was moved one too many place values each time

the correct pattern could be made by :

b. moving the decimal point to the right the same numbers of place values as the exponents