Does 4.8 feet actually mean 4 feet 8 inches?

Answer 1

No. 8 inches is .67 foot. Sometimes draftsmen use a decimal system for feet. That is all the more reason why the United States should adopt the Metric System! ========================================= I agree completely with the first answerer's final comment ! Here's the answer I was writing at the same time as the one above: No. 4.8 feet actually means (4 feet) and (8 tenths of another foot). (8 tenths of a foot) is not 8 inches, because there are 12 inches in a foot, not 10. (8 tenths of a foot) is 9.6 inches. Going the other way, 8 inches is 0.667 foot. We could avoid all of this nonsense of we would all relax and accept the metric system.