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:
95 x 95 x 95 x 95 x ... (for a total of 73 times) = 2364956658823001286354103372769483697672504522562638700829244365549565783664081799516440509259675213800909465700073042171425186097621917724609375
Therefore, 95 to the power of 73 is 2364956658823001286354103372769483697672504522562638700829244365549565783664081799516440509259675213800909465700073042171425186097621917724609375.