What 2 square numbers subtract to make 2980?

What two square numbers subtract to make 2980? In other words, when you subtract one square number from another square number, the answer is 2980. 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 = 2980

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

154² - 144² = 2980

154² is 23716 and 144² is 20736, therefore the answer to the question "What 2 square numbers subtract to make 2980?" is 23716 and 20736 as illustrated below:

23716 - 20736 = 2980

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 2980. Below we list alternate solutions if available.

556516 - 553536 = 2980

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