The first step is to understand what it means when a number has an exponent. The “power” of a number indicates how many times the base would be multiplied by itself to reach the correct value.
The second step is to write the number in the base-exponent form, and lastly calculate what the final result would be. Consider the example of 2 to the power of 4: in exponent form that would be
So re-applying these steps to our particular problem, we first convert our word problem to a base-exponent form of:
To simplify this, all that is needed is to multiply it out:
25 x 25 x 25 x 25 x ... (for a total of 88 times) = 1044048714879763924273647057481047608912186281291034647641381832875155719135597796355663380296618925058282911777496337890625
Therefore, 25 to the power of 88 is 1044048714879763924273647057481047608912186281291034647641381832875155719135597796355663380296618925058282911777496337890625.