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I never heard this question. So let me show how I would answer.
Model each cup as an urn with 1000 balls, black for the coffee and
red for the tea.
Suppose one spoonful means 10 balls and that good
mixing occurs after the first transfer. Also that volumes of coffee
and tea balls are identical. Pure water balls are white and can be
ignored in this problem.
After the first transfer we have 990 black balls in one cup and a
mixture of 1010 balls in another. What happens after the second
transfer? It is unlikely that the second spoon will contain more
than one or two black balls. On that basis my answer is that
there is more coffee in the tea than tea in the coffee.