An online subscription service has calculated the ratio of active subscriptions to expired subscriptions and found that the ratio is 0.4 to 1. What does this ratio mean?

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An online subscription service has calculated the ratio of active subscriptions to expired subscriptions and found that the ratio is 0.4 to 1.  What does this ratio mean?

a.There are 0.6 more expired subscriptions than active subscriptions.

b.There are more active subscriptions than expired subscriptions.

c.There are approximately 4 active subscriptions for every 10 expired subscriptions.

d. 4 out of every 10 subscriptions remain active, only 6 of every 10 subscriptions expired.  

40% of all subscriptions are active.

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