"solving the question" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
For example: "We were able to get the answer we were looking for by solving the question."
If they kept this up long enough, the ship would be full of them, and would sink, thus solving the question of peace.
In making the announcement at a news conference at City Hall, officials also said that they had uncovered little helpful evidence for solving the question of how the hospital employee, Kathy T. Nguyen of the Bronx, had become infected.
But if it comes back negative for anthrax bacteria, it will mean that city officials are no closer to solving the question of how Ms. Nguyen was exposed to anthrax spores, causing the only anthrax-related death in New York and the fourth in the United States.
He believes that merely solving the question of Iran's nuclear ambitions "is not going to be the end of the troubles we're having".
Environmental economists are now solving the question - how large, in its physical dimensions, should the economic system be in relation to the ecosystem that sustains it [4]?
On the other hand, it is perhaps enough to say here that royalties cannot be secured without solving the question of copyright first.
So can you solve the question?
Contestants who failed to solve the question within the prescribed time were eliminated.
3. Should an immigration overhaul solve the question of border security and safety before tackling other issues?
And when they are solved the question is: what is the meaning of that, does it have any meaning?
As a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, he helped solve the question of how cells move.
