What 2 square numbers subtract to make 5844?

What two square numbers subtract to make 5844? In other words, when you subtract one square number from another square number, the answer is 5844. 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 = 5844

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

490² - 484² = 5844

490² is 240100 and 484² is 234256, therefore the answer to the question "What 2 square numbers subtract to make 5844?" is 240100 and 234256 as illustrated below:

240100 - 234256 = 5844

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 5844. Below we list alternate solutions if available.

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