AoPS Wiki talk:Problem of the Day/September 21, 2011

We see, after substitution, that \[x=\sqrt{x}+2\] and thus, isolating the square root and squaring, \[x=(x-2)^2=x^2-4x+4\] and therefore $x^2-5x+4=0$. The sum of the roots of this equation, by Vieta's formulas, is $\boxed{5}$.