ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Problem picture

Okay kiddo, so imagine you have a puzzle, but some pieces are missing. You want to put the puzzle together, but it won't look complete without those missing pieces. That's kind of like a problem picture.

A problem picture is when you have a situation that needs to be solved, but you don't have all the pieces to do it yet. It's like a puzzle that's not finished. You need to figure out what's missing before you can solve the problem.

For example, let's say you want to bake cookies, but you don't have all the ingredients. You might have the sugar and the butter, but you don't have the flour. Without the flour, you won't be able to make the cookies. So you need to figure out a way to get the missing ingredient, or find a substitute, before you can solve the problem of not having enough ingredients.

Does that make sense, kiddo? A problem picture is just like a puzzle with missing pieces, and you need to find the missing pieces before you can solve the problem.