Very Curious, George! How is that you can post a moderately complex solution, but do not know how to post an image?
Why did you address this to Hectictar?
Here’s a much better Halloween Story, by Dragonlance. The kid is a gifted writer. He’s not a kid anymore: he’s attending university on an academic scholarship. It’s very cool to see someone grow up on this forum.
Do you understand what Rom wants you to do?
graph each side seperately, put y= out the front of each side and see where the graphs cross.
The x value of intersections will be your solutions.
Use https://www.desmos.com/calculator for this.
If you need an algebraic solution then think about that after you find the solution graphically.