How much of the ice melted and how much remained the floating in the beverage? Suppose the specific heat capacity of tea is the same as that of pure water. Three 45-g ice cubes at 0 °C are dropped into the 5.00 102 mL of tea to make ice tea. The tea was initially at the 20.0 °C; when thermal equilibrium was reached, the final temperature was 0 °C.