What 2 square numbers subtract to make 2988?

What two square numbers subtract to make 2988? In other words, when you subtract one square number from another square number, the answer is 2988. 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 = 2988

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

92² - 74² = 2988

92² is 8464 and 74² is 5476, therefore the answer to the question "What 2 square numbers subtract to make 2988?" is 8464 and 5476 as illustrated below:

8464 - 5476 = 2988

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 2988. Below we list alternate solutions if available.

63504 - 60516 = 2988
559504 - 556516 = 2988

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