How do you solve $sqrt(2x)+7=5$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2015-05-09T17:36:48

In this way:

$sqrt(2x)=-2$ that is an impossible equation, since the fact that where a square root exists, there it has values not-negative.

How do you solve sqrt(2x)+7=5sqrt(2x)+7=5?