Part a.) Under the given conditions, we know that $\forall \epsilon > 0$ there exists $r > 0$ such that:
$$\frac{m(E \cap [-r,r])}{m([-r,r])} \geq (1-\epsilon)$$
Now, simply observe (by the translation / rotation invariance of the Lebesgue Measure):
$$m(-E \cap [-r,r]) = m(E \cap [-r,r]) \geq (1-\epsilon)2r$$
Thus, for $\epsilon < \frac{1}{2}$:
$$0 < (1-2\epsilon)2r \leq m(-E \cap E \cap [-r,r])$$
...and thus, since these sets have positive measure, we can always find a sequence of $x_n's$ that satisfy the condition.
Part b.) It suffices to simply consider the $cE$ case, where $c > 1$. Since:
$$\frac{m(cE \cap [-r,r])}{m([-r,r])} = \frac{m(E \cap [-\frac{r}{c}, \frac{r}{c}])}{m([-\frac{r}{c},\frac{r}{c}])}$$
We have:
$$m(cE \cap [-r,r]) = \frac{m([-r,r])}{m([-\frac{r}{c},\frac{r}{c}])}m\Big(E \cap \Big[-\frac{r}{c},\frac{r}{c}\Big]\Big) = \ldots$$
$$\ldots = cm\Big(E \cap \Big[-\frac{r}{c},\frac{r}{c}\Big]\Big)$$
Thus, like in part a, we have that since $\forall \epsilon > 0$ there exists an $r_0 > 0$ such that $\forall r \in (0,r_0)$:
$$m(E \cap [-r,r]) > (1 - \epsilon)2r$$
Therefore, since $\frac{r}{c} < r$, we have:
$$m(cE \cap [-r,r]) = cm\Big(E \cap \Big[-\frac{r}{c},\frac{r}{c}\Big]\Big) > c(1 - \epsilon)2\frac{r}{c} = \ldots$$
$$\ldots = (1 - \epsilon)2r > 0$$
...when $\epsilon < \frac{1}{2}$. Thus, under these settings, the estimate:
$$m(cE \cap E \cap [-r,r]) > (1 - 2\epsilon)2r$$
...holds, $\implies$ we can choose a sequence of $x_n's$ satisfying the desired condition.
To see that this condition holds for $0 < c < 1$, observe that if we simply define $cE = F$, that: $\frac{1}{c}F = E$, and the statement holds per the previous argument.
Now, since we know it works for $c > 0$, and $c = -1$ (from Part a.), simply combine the arguments to see that this clearly works for $c \in \mathbb{R} \backslash \lbrace 0 \rbrace$.
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