the data showed that out of 100,000 packages a total of 900 got lost or damaged. what would you say is the probability of a package getting lost or damaged?

Question

has to be written as a decimal and percent

Answer 1

This is called "empirical data" (that is, observed values).  It has little to do with the kind of packages, the processing, etc.  It simply gives us an observed rate for lost/damaged packages.

 

The problem merely wants us to convert "900 out of 100,000" to a decimal or a percent.  Calling it a "probability" assumes additional information not presented in the problem.

 

      900/100000   =  0.009  =  0.009*(100%) = 0.9%