In a race, five runners A, B, C, D, and E finish in the following order: A finishes before B but after C. D finishes before E but after A. What is the correct sequence of finishers?
Answer: C. C, A, D, B, E
C must finish first, A must finish after C but before B, and D must finish after A but before E, leading to the sequence C, A, D, B, E.