What 2 square numbers subtract to make 212?

What two square numbers subtract to make 212? In other words, when you subtract one square number from another square number, the answer is 212. 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 = 212

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

54² - 52² = 212

54² is 2916 and 52² is 2704, therefore the answer to the question "What 2 square numbers subtract to make 212?" is 2916 and 2704 as illustrated below:

2916 - 2704 = 212

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 212. Below we list alternate solutions if available.

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