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:
97 x 97 x 97 x 97 x ... (for a total of 93 times) = 58853363326404531265177800872623104467937445194363581976228067558987271291409203879799633967791100436600261577161251991674558899187474864866695215659682758511130528621205058904157502177
Therefore, 97 to the power of 93 is 58853363326404531265177800872623104467937445194363581976228067558987271291409203879799633967791100436600261577161251991674558899187474864866695215659682758511130528621205058904157502177.