What 2 square numbers subtract to make 8601?

What two square numbers subtract to make 8601? In other words, when you subtract one square number from another square number, the answer is 8601. 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 = 8601

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

101² - 40² = 8601

101² is 10201 and 40² is 1600, therefore the answer to the question "What 2 square numbers subtract to make 8601?" is 10201 and 1600 as illustrated below:

10201 - 1600 = 8601

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 8601. Below we list alternate solutions if available.

13225 - 4624 = 8601

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