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A corporate auditor is training a new clerk on how to identify 'decimal errors' in financial reports. The auditor explains that if a digit in a whole number is accidentally shifted one position to the left, its value increases significantly. In our standard place value system, moving a digit exactly one position to the left increases its value by a factor of:

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