The citizens of a city were asked to choose their favorite pet. The circle graph shows how the citizens answered the questions, how many chose hamsters, birds, or fish.

To find how many chose hamsters, birds, or fish we first verified that the sum of all the percentages is 100% to check that the citizens answered just one time each one.
We have that 17+22+21+27+7+6 = 100.
Now hamsters, birds, or fish is an union of the people that answered this is a sum 6+21+17 = 44 in this case because the events are independients this means the intersection is empty. So the answer is 44.