What 2 square numbers subtract to make 6371?

What two square numbers subtract to make 6371? In other words, when you subtract one square number from another square number, the answer is 6371. 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 = 6371

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

150² - 127² = 6371

150² is 22500 and 127² is 16129, therefore the answer to the question "What 2 square numbers subtract to make 6371?" is 22500 and 16129 as illustrated below:

22500 - 16129 = 6371

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 6371. Below we list alternate solutions if available.

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