convert base ten number to a number in identical base

Question

59 to base 4

Answer 1

What do you mean by "a number in identical base?"
Identical to what?

59 (base 10) = 3*4^2 + 2*4^1 +3*4^0

To base 4, it would be written as 323

Answer 2

I'm not sure that is how the problem was given to us