Does the trial court have a duty to consider how best to aid the jury in response to an inquiry?

It is unquestionably true that trial courts have a duty to consider how best to aid the jury in response to an inquiry. (People v. Beardslee (1991) 53 Cal.3d 68, 97.) But nothing in the record shows that the trial court failed in this case to fulfill that duty. True, the court stated (in the post-trial hearing concerning the record on appeal) its recollection "that there was no way I was going to answer that question." But the record also shows that the court convened a hearing to inform counsel of the jury's question, and its intended response, to which neither counsel objectedmuch less suggested any response that could have, or should have, been given instead.