At my office, 16 people own cats, \(8\) people own dogs, and \(3\) people own both cats and dogs. How many people own a cat or a dog?
I think you forgot 3 own both in step 3. It's 21 since you do 16+8=24 as you did but then subtract 3 to get 21 as the answer.
For some reason whenever I'm doing an actual test I make silly mistakes but then casual problems I don't. Lol.