If ‘CONSTABLE’ is coded as 91, what will be the code number for ‘STABLE’?

Concept: In an alphabet-to-number coding pattern, each letter of a word is replaced by its position in the English alphabet (A = 1, B = 2, C = 3, ... Z = 26), and the numeric code for the whole word is the sum of the position values of all its letters.

Application:

1. Use the given clue to confirm the rule: for CONSTABLE, the letters are C, O, N, S, T, A, B, L, E, with position values 3, 15, 14, 19, 20, 1, 2, 12, 5.

2. Adding these nine values gives 3 + 15 + 14 + 19 + 20 + 1 + 2 + 12 + 5 = 91, exactly matching the code given for CONSTABLE, so the position-sum rule is confirmed.

3. Apply the same rule to STABLE: the letters are S, T, A, B, L, E, with position values 19, 20, 1, 2, 12, 5.

4. Adding these six values gives 19 + 20 + 1 + 2 + 12 + 5 = 59.

Cross-check: STABLE contains every letter of CONSTABLE except C, O and N. Removing these three letters' values (3 + 15 + 14 = 32) from CONSTABLE's total gives an independent check: 91 − 32 = 59, the same result obtained by direct addition.

Hence, the code for STABLE works out to 59.