Fresh orange juice contains 12% (by weight) solids and the rest water 90% of the fresh juice is sent to an evaporator to remove water and subsequently mixed with the remaining 10% of fresh juice. The resultant product contains 40% solids. The kg of water removed from 1 kg fresh juice is__________________?

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0.7. Let S be solids (0.12 kg) and W_total be total water (0.88 kg). The final product has 40% solids, meaning the solid mass is 0.4 times the final weight. Water removed is 0.7 kg.