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An inventory manager is calculating the number of individual units in a shipment by dividing the total weight of 15.6{}15.6 kilograms by the weight per unit of 0.12{}0.12 kilograms. To simplify the long division, they shift the decimal points in both numbers to divide 1560{}1560 by 12{}12. True or False: This simplification is mathematically justified by the Equivalent Fractions Property, which states that multiplying both the dividend and the divisor by the same power of 10{}10 (in this case, 100{}100) does not change the quotient.

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