What 2 square numbers subtract to make 5917?

What two square numbers subtract to make 5917? In other words, when you subtract one square number from another square number, the answer is 5917. 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 = 5917

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

79² - 18² = 5917

79² is 6241 and 18² is 324, therefore the answer to the question "What 2 square numbers subtract to make 5917?" is 6241 and 324 as illustrated below:

6241 - 324 = 5917

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 5917. Below we list alternate solutions if available.

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