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Pharmaceutical Batch Calculation

A pharmacy technician is calculating the total amount of an active ingredient needed for a batch of 1,000 tablets. Each tablet contains 5.63 mg of the ingredient. Using the power-of-ten shortcut, state how many places the decimal point must be moved, the direction in which it should be moved, and the final total amount of the ingredient in milligrams.

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