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How many working days in year 2004?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2004 is a leap year, it has 366 days.

Let's remove 52 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 262 days.

Now, let's remove 7 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 255 working days in 2004.

Here is the list of these 7 public holidays:

1. Solenidade da Santa Mãe de Deus : Thursday, 1 January, 2004
2. Sexta-Feira Santa : Friday, 9 April, 2004
3. Corpo de Deus : Thursday, 10 June, 2004
4. Implantação da República : Tuesday, 5 October, 2004
5. Todos os Santos : Monday, 1 November, 2004
6. Restauração da Independência : Wednesday, 1 December, 2004
7. Dia da Imaculada Conceição : Wednesday, 8 December, 2004

And here are the 5 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. Páscoa : Sunday, 11 April, 2004
2. Dia da Liberdade : Sunday, 25 April, 2004
3. Dia do Trabalhador : Saturday, 1 May, 2004
4. Assunção de Nossa Senhora : Sunday, 15 August, 2004
5. Natal : Saturday, 25 December, 2004