The data retrieval and arithmetic is straightforward, but I will carefully explain it here so that any reader - and particular any reporter and news editor -- can easily reproduce it.
By way of highlighting that straightforward fact, I'll quote from a mother of four I met earlier this year, in Hartlepool, who was facing a cut of at least £16 – and as much as £28 – a week in her family's housing benefit: "We can't cut it from fuel, or electricity, or petrol.
This enquiry has a straightforward solution and I will not need to get help from a specialist at head office.
"I'm a very honest and straightforward person, so I will confess that in recent years there has been a feeling of disconnect.
While everyone else in the class opted for straightforward classics like "I Will Always Love You" by Whitney Houston or "We Found Love" by Rihanna, I decided to tackle "All I Need" by Radiohead.
"It's not a straightforward linear equation but I will always instinctively feel that Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton are responsible for one million more cyclists from 2008 to 2012.
About eight or nine months into the year, I'd gone to work for a different project, and I came back to that idea, I said, "you know, that's pretty straightforward to do, I'll do that".
And his message was straightforward: Hire me, and I'll apply the lessons I learned while helping to revitalize Stamford, the state's fourth-largest city.
After Wednesday's opponents AC Milan did the same, in much more straightforward fashion, Massimiliano Allegri said "maybe I'll resign tomorrow morning".
"I'll be a Cy Young, I'll tell you straightforward.
