What 2 square numbers subtract to make 5908?

What two square numbers subtract to make 5908? In other words, when you subtract one square number from another square number, the answer is 5908. 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 = 5908

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

218² - 204² = 5908

218² is 47524 and 204² is 41616, therefore the answer to the question "What 2 square numbers subtract to make 5908?" is 47524 and 41616 as illustrated below:

47524 - 41616 = 5908

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 5908. Below we list alternate solutions if available.

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