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:
31 x 31 x 31 x 31 x ... (for a total of 95 times) = 4779262825141566929692917638459126913375301280523729410955999402528459514164792807141078521123240335574442933654669002983141917972971439376351
Therefore, 31 to the power of 95 is 4779262825141566929692917638459126913375301280523729410955999402528459514164792807141078521123240335574442933654669002983141917972971439376351.