When the variances are known and the sample size is large, a z-test is used to assess whether two population means are different.
The z-test is best utilized for samples with more than 30 because, according to the central limit theorem, samples with more than 30 samples are assumed to be approximately regularly distributed.
When the population variance is unknown, however, the t-test is the proper test statistic to apply.
A t-test compares the means of two samples using statistics. It is used in hypothesis testing, with a null hypothesis of no difference in group means and an alternate hypothesis of a difference in group means that is not zero.
When asked about probabilities of the mean, sum or total, and/or percentiles means and sums, the Central Limit Theorem should be utilized.
The Central Limit Theorem implies that if you collect sufficiently enough random samples from a population with mean and standard deviation with replacement, the distribution of the sample means will be nearly normally distributed.