Isolate a radical term:



Square both sides:



Simplify:







Isolate the radical term:



Square both sides:

 









 169x-29=0;  x-5=0
 169x = 29;    x=5
 x=29/169;

Since x is an integer, the answer is likely x = 5.

But since we squared both sides, we must check for extraneous roots.








It checks, so the answer is x = 5.

Edwin