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:
34 x 34 x 34 x 34 x ... (for a total of 100 times) = 1405696955498267491541705127961637555026742863683784726712507274522355585042137573835346212619282244621664528557733175717906457091122459228663147843813376
Therefore, 34 to the power of 100 is 1405696955498267491541705127961637555026742863683784726712507274522355585042137573835346212619282244621664528557733175717906457091122459228663147843813376.