What 2 square numbers subtract to make 480?

What two square numbers subtract to make 480? In other words, when you subtract one square number from another square number, the answer is 480. 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 = 480

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

22² - 2² = 480

22² is 484 and 2² is 4, therefore the answer to the question "What 2 square numbers subtract to make 480?" is 484 and 4 as illustrated below:

484 - 4 = 480

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 480. Below we list alternate solutions if available.

529 - 49 = 480
676 - 196 = 480
841 - 361 = 480

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