What 2 square numbers subtract to make 8885?

What two square numbers subtract to make 8885? In other words, when you subtract one square number from another square number, the answer is 8885. 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 = 8885

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

891² - 886² = 8885

891² is 793881 and 886² is 784996, therefore the answer to the question "What 2 square numbers subtract to make 8885?" is 793881 and 784996 as illustrated below:

793881 - 784996 = 8885

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 8885. Below we list alternate solutions if available.

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