What 2 square numbers subtract to make 5837?

What two square numbers subtract to make 5837? In other words, when you subtract one square number from another square number, the answer is 5837. 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 = 5837

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

231² - 218² = 5837

231² is 53361 and 218² is 47524, therefore the answer to the question "What 2 square numbers subtract to make 5837?" is 53361 and 47524 as illustrated below:

53361 - 47524 = 5837

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 5837. Below we list alternate solutions if available.

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