Make sure you remember the area of a square with side which is . Once you figure that out, you need to find the length of a side, make sure you factor the expression of the area as a perfect-square trinomial.
An example of that is...
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Break it down and take the length out of the Square of Sum and you should get your answer.
Example: Use Square of Sum and get then, get rid of parentheses >> 2x + 5 and you should get your answer :)