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A test of two binomial proportions in R, seems appropriate to test $H_0: p_1=p_2$ against $H_a: p_1 \ne p_2.$ The two estimated proportions are $\hat p_1 = 40/200 = 0.20$ and $\hat p_2 = 200/800 = 0.25,$ so the observed proportions are slightly different. However, prop.test in R gives a P-value $0.1386 > 0.05 = 5\%,$ so the difference is not statistically significant at the 5% level.

prop.test(c(40, 200), c(200,800), cor=F)

        2-sample test for equality of proportions 
        without continuity correction

data:  c(40, 200) out of c(200, 800)
X-squared = 2.193, df = 1, p-value = 0.1386
alternative hypothesis: two.sided
95 percent confidence interval:
 -0.11303578  0.01303578
sample estimates:
prop 1 prop 2 
  0.20   0.25 

Note: (1) I did not use the continuity correction for the normal approximation in this test on account of the sample sizes over 100. (2) A similar test which you can try with hand computation is described on this NIST page.

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