What 2 square numbers subtract to make 8876?

What two square numbers subtract to make 8876? In other words, when you subtract one square number from another square number, the answer is 8876. 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 = 8876

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

324² - 310² = 8876

324² is 104976 and 310² is 96100, therefore the answer to the question "What 2 square numbers subtract to make 8876?" is 104976 and 96100 as illustrated below:

104976 - 96100 = 8876

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 8876. Below we list alternate solutions if available.

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