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In a corporate accounting department, a specialist needs to calculate the unit cost of an item by dividing the total expense of 15.75 dollars by a quantity of 0.25. To simplify the long division, the specialist shifts the decimal points in both numbers two places to the right to divide 1575 by 25. Which mathematical property justifies that this action does not change the resulting unit cost?

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