In
order to calculate this rate of growth in m/min, the first step by
calculating how many minutes are there in one year using this formular.
(365days/year*24hours/day*60minutes/hour)= 525600minutes/year. The second
step is to convert 3mm into meters. Keeping in mind that 1000mm make one
meter, you can divide 3mm by 1000 which is equal to 0.003m. The third step is
to calculate (0.003/525600) in order to find out how many minutes it takes
the tree to grow by one meter. Therefore the growth rate of this tree is
(0.003meters/year*1/525600years/minute) and the answer can be expressed as 5.7*10^9m/min
