What 2 square numbers subtract to make 3172?

What two square numbers subtract to make 3172? In other words, when you subtract one square number from another square number, the answer is 3172. 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 = 3172

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

74² - 48² = 3172

74² is 5476 and 48² is 2304, therefore the answer to the question "What 2 square numbers subtract to make 3172?" is 5476 and 2304 as illustrated below:

5476 - 2304 = 3172

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 3172. Below we list alternate solutions if available.

630436 - 627264 = 3172

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