What 2 square numbers subtract to make 3179?

What two square numbers subtract to make 3179? In other words, when you subtract one square number from another square number, the answer is 3179. 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 = 3179

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

102² - 85² = 3179

102² is 10404 and 85² is 7225, therefore the answer to the question "What 2 square numbers subtract to make 3179?" is 10404 and 7225 as illustrated below:

10404 - 7225 = 3179

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 3179. Below we list alternate solutions if available.

22500 - 19321 = 3179

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