If you subtract two from a number and square the outcome, what am I?
Category: Math · Difficulty: expert
Hint: Think about how squaring affects a number.
Answer
A squared value
Explanation
A squared value results from multiplying a number by itself after performing arithmetic operations.
This is a expert math riddle — one of the harder riddles here. The answer is A squared value.
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