California
The clues from the text are "one state south" and "sea side". There are only a few states one state south of Oregon: Nevada and California. Nevada is landlocked which means it does not have any access to the ocean. Therefore, your answer must be California. California's entire Western border is on the ocean.
Answer:
A locked door can symbolize opportunities that you have not worked towards yet, or opportunities that you haven't been able to achieve. Or, a goal you haven't been able to achieve.
Explanation:
A locked door. Locked doors are doors that need a key to be unlocked, right? So, if the opportunities/goals that you have are behind that door, you need the "key", which is the hard work and effort you put into achieving that goal.
First convert them all to one category of numbers (for lack of a better explanation), like decimals. So 75% because .75, 1/2 becomes .5, 0.375 stays the same, and 5/8 becomes 0.625
So, if you want the answer from least to greatest it would be
0.375, 1/2, 5/8, 75%