Euler characteristic as surgery obstruction (Ex)

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Consider a map f \colon M \to X from a closed n-dimensional manifold M to a finite CW-complex X. Suppose that it can be converted by a finite sequence of surgery steps to a homotopy equivalence f' \colon M' \to X. Show that then \chi(M) - \chi(X) \equiv 0 \mod 2.

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