figure out

(Informal)

1. To discover or decide: Let's figure out a way to help.

2. To solve or decipher: Can you figure out this puzzle?

.... Am Heritage

(PHRASAL VERB)

If you figure out a solution to a problem or the reason for something, you succeed in solving it or understanding it. [INFORMAL]

• It took them about one month to figure out how to start the equipment.     
• They're trying to figure out the politics of this whole situation.   
• =  work out