Identify the assumption for using the two means ztest and the two mean zinterval procedure that renders those procedures generally impractical.

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Two population should be normally distributed and σ1andσ2should be known.

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Given In the question that Two means ztests and two means zinterval Procedure are used for comparing population mean. we have to calculate the assumption for using two mean ztest and two mean zinterval procedure.

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he two-meansztest and the two-means z-interval procedure require the presence of two normally distributed but independent populations with known standard deviations σ1andσ2.

The hypotheses test formula is as follows:

z=x¯1-x¯2-μ1-μ2σ12n1+σ12n1

Where x1andx2are the means of two sample.

μ1-μ2-Hypothesized difference between the population mean.

σ1andσ2-Standard deviation

n1andn2-size of the two samples.

Null hypothesis: H0:μ1=μ2ORH0:μ1-μ2=0

Alternate hypothesis : H0:μ1μ2ORH0:μ1-μ20

This method is works only if standard deviation σ1andσ2are known.

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