SOLUTION: 3 square root minus 4 equal 2

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What you said was:



Which is an utterly false statement because a complex number with a non-zero imaginary component cannot be equal to a real number.

What you really might have meant was:



In which case:

Divide both sides by 3:



Square both sides:



Add 4 to both sides:





John