Script (guión): Phrasal verbs, ‘figure out’. To figure out is to solve or realize.
For example, I could never figure out how George Bush became president of the United States. Well, actually, I can figure it out but, at first instant, it is difficult to figure out.
It might be a mathematical thing as well. A sum, you are trying to do a sum, you can't figure it out, you can't solve it, you don't know how to do it.
To figure out, to solve or realize.