Consider the equation:
$$2\sqrt {2x}+\sqrt {2x+3}=\sqrt {3x+2}+\sqrt {6x+20}.$$
Find a trick ( if exists ) which allows to solve it elegantly i.e. with avoiding the systematic squaring.
(The systematic squaring inevitably leads to a fourth-degree equation:
$$
\begin{align}
0
&=
207x^4-12564x^3+27738x^2+231084x-40401\\[6pt]
&=9\left( 23x^2-1258x-4489\right) \left( x^2-6x+1\right)\;,
\end{align}
$$
so the answer is
$$x=\dfrac {629+\sqrt {498888}} {23}.$$
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