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It moves one place to the left.
It becomes ten times as large.
The value increases by a factor of ten. For example, a 4 moved to the left would become 40, 400, 4000, and so on infinitely.
The answer depends on why you move the decimal point to the right. In the context of scientific notation, you increase the exponent by the number of place that the decimal place is moved.