What 2 square numbers subtract to make 5855?

What two square numbers subtract to make 5855? In other words, when you subtract one square number from another square number, the answer is 5855. 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 = 5855

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

588² - 583² = 5855

588² is 345744 and 583² is 339889, therefore the answer to the question "What 2 square numbers subtract to make 5855?" is 345744 and 339889 as illustrated below:

345744 - 339889 = 5855

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 5855. Below we list alternate solutions if available.

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