What 2 square numbers subtract to make 5388?

What two square numbers subtract to make 5388? In other words, when you subtract one square number from another square number, the answer is 5388. 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 = 5388

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

452² - 446² = 5388

452² is 204304 and 446² is 198916, therefore the answer to the question "What 2 square numbers subtract to make 5388?" is 204304 and 198916 as illustrated below:

204304 - 198916 = 5388

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 5388. Below we list alternate solutions if available.

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