State the null and alternative hypotheses for the claimA report from five years ago said that the average income of accountants was $51,497; but nowadays it's more than that.

ANSWER and EXPLANATION
We want to state the null and alternative hypotheses for the claim given.
A null hypothesis is a statement about a population parameter such that the likelihood can be tested to either accept or reject the alternative hypothesis.
An alternative hypothesis on the other hand is a statement that directly contradicts the null hypothesis.
Therefore, going by that, we see that the null hypothesis is:
[tex]\mu=\$51,497[/tex]and the alternative hypothesis is:
[tex]\mu>\$51,497[/tex]