figure out

We use [figure something out] to mean to solve or discover the cause of a problem:

• I can’t understand how he did it but we now have enough money! [replacing phrasal verb]
  
• We now have enough money but can you see how he did it? [replacing phrasal verb]
  

• Are these all the numbers? I really can’t figure out what they mean.
  
• Look at this email and figure it out for me, please. It’s unreadable.
  

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