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What is the difference between figure out and find out? Give some examples please.
May 19, 2012 11:07 AM
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To figure something out means you have to think to solve it. For example: You figure out a math problem. You don't find it out. You figure out how to solve a puzzle. You don't find it out. To find out something may take a little effort but not a lot of thinking. If I wanted to learn how to say something in Arabic, I could look it up and I would find it out. If I wanted to know to know the capital of France, I would find it out by looking it up.
May 19, 2012
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Find out=discover some information. Figure out is usually used when we are in the process of making a decision or trying to arrange something. I can't make plans for my holidays until my boss figures out when he is taking his vacation.
May 19, 2012
Thanks guys
May 20, 2012
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