What 2 square numbers subtract to make 1003?

What two square numbers subtract to make 1003? In other words, when you subtract one square number from another square number, the answer is 1003. What are the two square numbers?

First, note that a square number is what you get when you multiply a number by itself, which means that the square root of a square number will equal a whole number. Thus, this is what we are solving:

A² - B² = 1003

We solved the equation above and found this to be true:

38² - 21² = 1003

38² is 1444 and 21² is 441, therefore the answer to the question "What 2 square numbers subtract to make 1003?" is 1444 and 441 as illustrated below:

1444 - 441 = 1003

Note that there may be more than one solution to a problem like this. Above, we found the lowest combination of square numbers that subtract to 1003. Below we list alternate solutions if available.

252004 - 251001 = 1003

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