The phrase "a single answer to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific solution or response to a question or problem.
Example: "In complex situations, it is often difficult to find a single answer to the issue at hand."
Alternatives: "one solution to" or "a definitive response to".
But a group of engineers at IBM think they have a single answer to both problems.
It's clear from the variety of initiatives, products and aids that are being piloted and invented that there won't be a single answer to helping improve recycling rates in our households.
Instead of a single answer to the question, "How young is too young?" many countries are shifting to a "patchwork system of rules and exceptions", says Kaye Wellings, a sexual-health researcher at London University.
Indeed, the very idea of making privacy into a crime seems outlandish.There is unlikely to be a single answer to the dilemma posed by the conflict between privacy and the growing power of information technology.
Language-spotters should tip their hats in particular to the virtuosic under-secretary at the Ministry of Justice, Jonathan Djanogly MP, who managed in a single answer to the Public Administration Select Committee's 2012 hearings on justice administration to use "across the piece" an impressive four times.
The latest aspiration of chip designers —to stack the things on top of one another so that their components can communicate in three dimensions complicates matters still further.A group of engineers at IBM however, think they have a single answer to both problems.
The group answering the questions then tend to agree upon a single answer, and to be reluctant to admit it when they don't have a complete answer.
Whereas when they engage in very structured dance it helps their convergent thinking – trying to find the single answer to a problem.
There is no correct single answer to a question with that much complexity, but we can take a lesson from each company's quarterly results as a good starting point for comprehension.
A slideshow of four people who are testing the fuzzy boundaries of what constitutes a family, knowing there is no single answer to what defines it or what defines love.
Multi-scenario analysis such as this uses rational analysis not to optimize and provide a single answer, but to provide the decision-maker with a broad view of multiple hypotheses [ 22], relevant systems [ 20], or "branches and sequels" of possibilities [ 19].
