That's a lot of time...

The American chestnut (Castanea dentata) was a component of the Appalachian Mountain Region dating back as far as 17-20 million years ago. In fact, there is evidence that single American chestnut trees survived as much as 600 years.

Convert 600 years to days to find out about how long the trees lived in days.

A. About 219,000.

B. Less than a week.

C. 5,256,000 hours or 315,360,000 minutes.

D. Because of the blight, the mature ACT disappeared from eastern United States Forests from about 1904 to 1950, which is about half a century (a century is 100 years).