Idiom of the day!

FIGURE OUT
V. To find an answer by thinking about something; solve.
"Tom couldn't figure out the last problem on the test. "
(Tom could not find the answer;
he did not know how to work the problem.)
"Sam couldn't figure out how to print a page
until the teacher showed him how. "
(Sam tried to think of the things the teacher
would do to print a page, but he could not.)