While writing Height: 5 feet you could abbreviate it as Height: 5 2 . To write feet, you must use the symbol prime which is a single quotation mark ' . For inches you must use a double quotation mark . Length: 9 feet you would abbreviate it as Length: 9 2 .
There are 12 inches in a foot, so 56 inches is 4 feet, 8 inches (2/3 of a foot).
