A spoonful of cream is taken from a cup of cream and put into a cup of coffee. The coffee is then stirred. Then a spoonful of this mixture is put into the cup of cream.

Is there now more cream in the coffee cup or more coffee in the cup of cream?

I'm thinking there is definitely more cream in the coffee, since you pure a spoonful of 100% cream into the coffee. Now when when you pour the coffee/cream mixture back into the cream, you have a diluted (so to speak) solution of coffee going in. Since you stirred the coffee before returning the spoonful, I think that the amount of cream that goes back into the cream cup is very small. This leads me to believe there is more cream in the coffee than coffee in the cream.

Posted by DuCk on 2003-04-15 05:09:55