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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 13 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 248 working days in 1998.
Here is the list of these 13 public holidays:
1. New Year's Day : thursday, january 1, 1998
2. Martin Luther King Day : monday, january 19, 1998
3. Confederate Memorial Day : monday, april 27, 1998
4. Memorial Day : monday, may 25, 1998
5. Juneteenth National Independence Day : friday, june 19, 1998
6. Independence Day (observance) : friday, july 3, 1998
7. Labor Day : monday, september 7, 1998
8. Columbus Day : monday, october 12, 1998
9. Veterans Day : wednesday, november 11, 1998
10. Thanksgiving : thursday, november 26, 1998
11. Black Friday : friday, november 27, 1998
12. Christmas Eve : thursday, december 24, 1998
13. Christmas : friday, december 25, 1998
And here is the public holiday falling on a weekend:
1. Independence Day : saturday, july 4, 1998