A quadrilateral ABCD is inscribed in a circle k, where AB>CD and AB is not parallel to CD. Point M is the intersection of the diagonals AC and BD and the perpendicular from M to AB intersects the segment AB at the point E. If EM bisects the angle CED, prove that AB is a diameter of the circle k.
Let q be a positive rational number. Two ants are initially at the same point X in the plane. In the n-th minute (n=1,2,…) each of them chooses whether to walk due north, east, south or west and then walks the distance of qn metres. After a whole number of minutes, they are at the same point in the plane (not necessarily X ), but have not taken exactly the same route within that time. Determine all possible values of q.
Alice and Bob play the following game: They start with two non-empty piles of coins. Taking turns, with Alice playing first, each player chooses a pile with an even number of coins and moves half of the coins of this pile to the other pile. The game ends if a player cannot move, in which case the other player wins.
Determine all pairs (a,b) of positive integers such that if initially the two piles have a and b coins respectively, then Bob has a winning strategy.