They're the same thing. The 2 in squared inches is an exponent.
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inches is a length in one direction; square inches is an area in two directions; you need to know the second length and shape to find square inches
900 = 9 x 100 9 can be written as 3 to the power of 2 100 can be written as 10 to the power of 2 It is then written as (3 squared) x (10 squared) I cannot with the editor we use show how to write 3 squared or 10 squared but I hope you know ( 3 superscript 2) x (10 superscript 2).
Apart from writing out the answer it is hard to help you because we do not know what the difficulty is here: 422 is 16x2, and 523 is 25x3 and the difference is 43. Or perhaps you mean 4xsquared 2 - 5x squared 3, but even then we don't know what the difficulty is.
You cannot add exponents, you can only multiply. Example 3^3 it would be 3x3x3 9^3 it would be 9x9x9
If you have calculated it correctly, it will always be squared.