Question

It is convenient to add salt to butter, produced in a continuous butter making machine, by adding a slurry of salt with water containing 55% of salt and 45% of water by weight. the final composition of butter is to be 15.8% moisture (wet basis) and 1.4% salt (by mass). How many kg of salt slurry and how many kg of unsalted butter are required to make 1000 kg of salted butter?

Answer 1