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How many working days in year 1998?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 1998 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.

Let's remove 52 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 261 days.

Now, let's remove 7 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 254 working days in 1998.

Here is the list of these 7 public holidays:

1. Новы год : Thursday, 1 January, 1998
2. Новы год : Friday, 2 January, 1998
3. Каляды праваслаўныя : Wednesday, 7 January, 1998
4. Радунiца : Tuesday, 28 April, 1998
5. Дзень працы : Friday, 1 May, 1998
6. Дзень Незалежнасцi : Friday, 3 July, 1998
7. Каляды каталiцкiя : Friday, 25 December, 1998

And here are the 3 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. Мiжнародны жаночы дзень : Sunday, 8 March, 1998
2. Дзень Перамогi : Saturday, 9 May, 1998
3. Дзень Кастрычніцкай рэвалюцыі : Saturday, 7 November, 1998