What 2 square numbers subtract to make 6979?

What two square numbers subtract to make 6979? In other words, when you subtract one square number from another square number, the answer is 6979. 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 = 6979

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

502² - 495² = 6979

502² is 252004 and 495² is 245025, therefore the answer to the question "What 2 square numbers subtract to make 6979?" is 252004 and 245025 as illustrated below:

252004 - 245025 = 6979

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 6979. Below we list alternate solutions if available.

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