What 2 square numbers subtract to make 1017?

What two square numbers subtract to make 1017? In other words, when you subtract one square number from another square number, the answer is 1017. 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 = 1017

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

61² - 52² = 1017

61² is 3721 and 52² is 2704, therefore the answer to the question "What 2 square numbers subtract to make 1017?" is 3721 and 2704 as illustrated below:

3721 - 2704 = 1017

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 1017. Below we list alternate solutions if available.

29241 - 28224 = 1017
259081 - 258064 = 1017

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