What 2 square numbers subtract to make 8959?

What two square numbers subtract to make 8959? In other words, when you subtract one square number from another square number, the answer is 8959. 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 = 8959

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

160² - 129² = 8959

160² is 25600 and 129² is 16641, therefore the answer to the question "What 2 square numbers subtract to make 8959?" is 25600 and 16641 as illustrated below:

25600 - 16641 = 8959

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 8959. Below we list alternate solutions if available.

73984 - 65025 = 8959

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