Residually finite group with finitely many conjugacy classes of elements of finite order Let $G$ be a residually finite group. Show that if $G$ has finitely many conjugacy classes of elements of finite order then $G$ has a torsion free finite index subgroup.
Not sure how to get started on this one!

Let $x_1, \cdots, x_r$ be the representives for these conjugacy classes of finite orders. Since $G$ is residually finite, there exists $N_i \lhd G$ of finite index in $G$ such that $x_i \not \in N_i$ for each $i$. Let $N=\cap N_i$, then $N$ is what you need.
