When conducting a one-sample Student t -test for a population mean, particularly with a small sample size, which of the following is a strict theoretical assumption required for the test statistic to follow an exact t -distribution?

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When conducting a one-sample Student  t -test for a population mean, particularly with a small sample size, which of the following is a strict theoretical assumption required for the test statistic to follow an exact  t -distribution?

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The underlying population must be normally distributed

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The sample size must be strictly greater than 30

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The population variance must be completely known.

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The sample standard deviation must be exactly equal to the sample mean.

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