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 $\hat p_1 = 40/300 = 0.13$ and $\hat p_2 = 200/1000 = 0.20,$ so the observed proportions are different. Then `prop.test` in R gives a P-value $0.009 < 0.01 = 1\%,$ so the difference is statistically significant at the 1% level. prop.test(c(40, 200), c(300,1000), cor=F) 2-sample test for equality of proportions without continuity correction data: c(40, 200) out of c(300, 1000) X-squared = 6.8134, df = 1, p-value = 0.009048 alternative hypothesis: two.sided 95 percent confidence interval: -0.11243026 -0.02090307 sample estimates: prop 1 prop 2 0.1333333 0.2000000 _Notes:_ (1) Your table is in the correct format for a chi-squared test, shown below. (The different sample sizes are not a problem.) It gives the same P-value as 'prop.test', TAB = rbind(c(200,40), c(800, 260)) TAB [,1] [,2] [1,] 200 40 [2,] 800 260 chisq.test(TAB, cor=F) Pearson's Chi-squared test data: TAB X-squared = 6.8134, df = 1, p-value = 0.009048 (2) I did not use the continuity correctios for the normal approximation in either test on account of the sample sizes over 100. (3) A test similar to `prop.test`, which you can try with hand computation is described on this [NIST](https://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/software/dataplot/refman1/auxillar/binotest.htm) page.