What is the null hypothesis and the alternative hypothesis of this problem?

Suppose you as a county prosecutor accusing a construction company that the company defrauded the tax money by paving the asphalt thinner than 10 inches required by the contract with the city. What is the null hypothesis and the alternative hypothesis? Express them in equation form.|||H0: mu = 10 inches


HA: mu %26lt; 10 inches





The null always has the equal sign in it. The alternative has what you wish to show is true.|||You shouldn't put an equal sign in the alternative; only in the null.

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|||Do your own homework, kiddo.|||The alternative hypothesis is mu %26gt; 10 inches. The original hypothesis is mu %26lt; 10 inches.