What 2 square numbers subtract to make 2873?

What two square numbers subtract to make 2873? In other words, when you subtract one square number from another square number, the answer is 2873. 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 = 2873

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

93² - 76² = 2873

93² is 8649 and 76² is 5776, therefore the answer to the question "What 2 square numbers subtract to make 2873?" is 8649 and 5776 as illustrated below:

8649 - 5776 = 2873

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 2873. Below we list alternate solutions if available.

13689 - 10816 = 2873

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