Which situation involves descriptive statistics 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. the survey shows that 1 in 3 moviegoers would attend a midnight showing. 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.