A car leasing firm's records indicate that the mean number of miles driven annually in its cars has been about  17,500  miles. The firm suspects that this number has decreased this past year. Suppose that the firm wishes to choose a small sample of driving distances from the past year and carry out a hypothesis test for its suspicion. State the null hypothesis  H0  and the alternative hypothesis  H1  that it would use for this test.

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A car leasing firm's records indicate that the mean number of miles driven annually in its cars has been about 

17,500

 miles. The firm suspects that this number has decreased this past year. Suppose that the firm wishes to choose a small sample of driving distances from the past year and carry out a hypothesis test for its suspicion. State the null hypothesis 

H0

 and the alternative hypothesis 

H1

 that it would use for this test.

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