Help needed in this problem

Can anyone tell the approach? I referred to the editorial, but could not understand very well.Problem Link
@galencolin

You should clarify which part of the editorial you don’t understand

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Thank you @galencolin , I was facing problem understanding this statement -“For all k(1 ≤ k ≤ N), the number of times X is divided by 2 is equal to the number of
times ak/2 is divided by 2”, but I have solved this now :slightly_smiling_face: