SOLUTION: List the assumptions underlying the two sample t test for independent means

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Question 1020304: List the assumptions underlying the two sample t test for independent means
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Normally distributed populations.
Sample variance can be used to approximate the population variance.
The two populations are independent. The samples themselves don't have to be random, although most would want that.

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