There was no solving

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There was no solving such a difficult mathematics problems in five minutes. The word solving above means solution ?

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

anonymous The word solving above means solution ?

Not exactly. It means "arriving at a solution to".

CalifJim · Answer

anonymousa difficult mathematics problems

Sorry, but you can't have a noun phrase that's both singular and plural. You'll have to ditch the 'a' or the 's'.

anonymousThere was no (possibility of) solving such a difficult mathematics ~~problems~~ problem in five minutes.

"way of" or "possibility of" can be left out between 'there was no' and a gerund.

With 42% of HP's growth coming from PCs in 2000, there was no backing out now.
There was no doubting his determination, sitting in the desert with Gaddafi's planes flying overhead.
We're thinking about ways to lower the effort level if we do this event again, but there was no escaping the up-front costs.

CJ

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