general Maths Puzzle

If the difference of two numbers is 10 and their product is 17, what is the sum of their squares? Explain?

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general Other Question

A farmer challenges an engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician to fence off the large amount of area using the least amount of fence. The engineer made his fence in a circle and said it was most efficient. The physicist made a long line and said that the length was infinite. Then he said that fencing half of the Earth was the best. The mathematician laughed at the others and with his design, beat the others. What did he do? If you were to construct a 8 x 8 checkered square (i.e., a 8 x 8 chess board), how many squares would there be in total? Explain?