What 2 square numbers subtract to make 6556?

What two square numbers subtract to make 6556? In other words, when you subtract one square number from another square number, the answer is 6556. 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 = 6556

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

160² - 138² = 6556

160² is 25600 and 138² is 19044, therefore the answer to the question "What 2 square numbers subtract to make 6556?" is 25600 and 19044 as illustrated below:

25600 - 19044 = 6556

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 6556. Below we list alternate solutions if available.

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