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Payroll Calculation and Decimal Division

While verifying payroll calculations, an HR assistant encounters a decimal division problem and shifts the decimal points in both the divisor and the dividend to the right to make the divisor a whole number. Name the specific mathematical property that justifies this action, and state what mathematical operation is actually occurring to both numbers when the decimal point is shifted.

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