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How many working days in year 1997?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 1997 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 10 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 251 working days in 1997.
Here is the list of these 10 public holidays:
1. Año Nuevo : Wednesday, 1 January, 1997
2. Día de los Santos Reyes : Monday, 6 January, 1997
3. Día de Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia : Tuesday, 21 January, 1997
4. Día de la Independencia Nacional : Thursday, 27 February, 1997
5. Viernes Santo : Friday, 28 March, 1997
6. Día del Trabajo : Monday, 5 May, 1997
7. Corpus Christi : Thursday, 29 May, 1997
8. Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes : Wednesday, 24 September, 1997
9. Día de la Constitución : Monday, 10 November, 1997
10. Navidad : Thursday, 25 December, 1997
And here are the 2 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. Día de Juan Pablo Duarte : Sunday, 26 January, 1997
2. Día de la Restauración de la República : Saturday, 16 August, 1997