SOLUTION: Please help. Find the real solution to: {{{x+sqrt(x)-6=0}}} Answer: x=4 But how?

Question 981941: Please help. Find the real solution to:

Answer: x=4
But how?
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
First isolate

Now square both sides to get rid of the square root.

or

or

If you check both possible solutions back in the original equation, only works. The other value does NOT satisfy the original equation. So it's not a true solution.
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