What 2 square numbers subtract to make 5045?

What two square numbers subtract to make 5045? In other words, when you subtract one square number from another square number, the answer is 5045. 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 = 5045

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

507² - 502² = 5045

507² is 257049 and 502² is 252004, therefore the answer to the question "What 2 square numbers subtract to make 5045?" is 257049 and 252004 as illustrated below:

257049 - 252004 = 5045

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 5045. Below we list alternate solutions if available.

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