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Hint
Find anagrams of the words in this order: PLEASE, TRANCE, LISTEN, WARNED, VEINED, BRUISE.

Answers
ANSWER.

Reasoning
The initial letters are RWASEN, which is an anagram of ANSWER.
bruise becomes rubies warned becomes wander please becomes asleep listen becomes silent veined becomes envied trance becomes nectar

Workings

Hint
Try rewriting each statement so that they are all 'finished before' statements instead.

Answer
Bailey won …

… then Dale, Alex, Chris, and Emery.

Reasoning
By placing the person who finished higher to the left, we have:

Dale finished before Alex (Dale > Alex) Emery finished after Bailey (Bailey > Emery) Alex finished before Chris (Alex > Chris) Emery finished after Dale (Dale > Emery) Bailey finished before Alex (Bailey > Alex) Dale finished after Bailey (Bailey > Dale) Chris finished before Emery (Chris > Emery)
From (1) and (3):

   Dale > Alex > Chris

Adding (7):

   Dale > Alex > Chris > Emery

Adding (6):

   Bailey > Dale > Alex > Chris > Emery

Which is the final placing for all the players, and can be double-checked with the remaining clues.

Workings

Hint
Start by looking at the consonants and vowels (AEIOU).

Answer
65 tonnes.

Vowels (AEIOU) are worth 3 and consonants are worth 5, added together and then multiplied by the number of ingots.

So TIN has 1 vowel (worth 3) and 2 consonants (worth 10).

Added gives 13, then multiplied by 5 ingots = 65.

Workings

Hint
Start by filling the 11 gallon container.

Answer
Here are the contents of the containers after each stage:
A  B
0  11  fill B
7  4   fill A from B
0  4   empty A
4  0   fill A from B
4  11  fill B
7  8   fill A from B
0  8   empty A
7  1   fill A from B
0  1   empty A
1  0   fill A from B
1  11  fill B
7  5   fill A from B
0  5   empty A
5  0   fill A from B
5  11  fill B
7  9   fill A from B
0  9   empty A

This leaves 9 gallons in container B.