Radicals equations-negative square root and two radicals

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Is the answer to sqrt -81y^3 : y sqrt-81y? or is there no real solutions?

Also for this radical equation:
sqrt 2n-5 - sqrt 3n+4=2
I worked it out and can't seem to get an answer. Is there no real solutions?
 
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if y<0, then ##\sqrt{-81y^3}=|y|\sqrt{-81y}##, otherwise the square root is not defined in the real numbers.

Your equation has no real solutions. You can check this with WolframAlpha, for example.
 
thank you so much, that WolframAlpha thing is very useful!