What 2 square numbers subtract to make 273?

What two square numbers subtract to make 273? In other words, when you subtract one square number from another square number, the answer is 273. 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 = 273

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

17² - 4² = 273

17² is 289 and 4² is 16, therefore the answer to the question "What 2 square numbers subtract to make 273?" is 289 and 16 as illustrated below:

289 - 16 = 273

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 273. Below we list alternate solutions if available.

529 - 256 = 273
2209 - 1936 = 273
18769 - 18496 = 273

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