Which situation involves descriptive statistics? the survey shows that 1 in 3 moviegoers would attend a midnight showing. eighty percent of the recipes in a cookbook require salt. a reporter surveys some commuters in a city to estimate what percent of city’s commuters spend 45 minutes or more getting to work. a recent survey of the cost of new homes in the united states shows that the median price of a new home is up $15,000 since last year.

Correct answer: fourth optiondescriptive statistics are used to summarize the data. there are two types of descriptive statistics: a) measure of central tendencythis includes: mean, mode and mediab) measures of variationthis includes: standard deviation, rage and variance.from the above measures, median is being used in fourth option. therefore, the correct answer is: a recent survey of the cost of new homes in the united states shows that the median price of a new home is up $15,000 since last year.