The first step a math tutor would suggest 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:
29 x 29 x 29 x 29 x ... (for a total of 76 times) = 1387547439428344656247272504532537896952189706862745037301149512954382537414617471894894643441404995685462212721
Therefore, 29 to the power of 76 is 1387547439428344656247272504532537896952189706862745037301149512954382537414617471894894643441404995685462212721.