Why would someone wants you to figure out?

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Dale Batchelder
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02 Feb 2017, 9:54 am

I read what figure out mean. Something about discover or find out. Why would someone want you to? What is the point to it? I don't hear that term a lot and had to look it up.



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03 Feb 2017, 1:14 pm

You are obviously not a native speaker of English.

The phrase "to figure out" means to "solve a problem", or "decifer something" or to "use your own ingenuity to make something puzzling understandable".