CEMC Euclid, 2007

Algebra Difficulty 2.0 Junior Prove it Canada

Suppose $0^\circ < x < 90^\circ$ and $2\sin^2 x + \cos^2 x = \frac{25}{16}$ . What is the value of $\sin x$ ?

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