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:
47 x 47 x 47 x 47 x ... (for a total of 94 times) = 15038296593166286334727566047042586341175572183922446195624595856196375418861951393467616961509991109809998289860841813538403545644091662509725869504461756769
Therefore, 47 to the power of 94 is 15038296593166286334727566047042586341175572183922446195624595856196375418861951393467616961509991109809998289860841813538403545644091662509725869504461756769.