What 2 square numbers subtract to make 2880?

What two square numbers subtract to make 2880? In other words, when you subtract one square number from another square number, the answer is 2880. 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 = 2880

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

54² - 6² = 2880

54² is 2916 and 6² is 36, therefore the answer to the question "What 2 square numbers subtract to make 2880?" is 2916 and 36 as illustrated below:

2916 - 36 = 2880

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 2880. Below we list alternate solutions if available.

3136 - 256 = 2880
3364 - 484 = 2880
3721 - 841 = 2880

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