Let be a diameter of the circumcircle of triangle . Join to the orthocentre, , of and extend to meet the circle again at . Prove that the nine point circle of passes through the midpoint of .
Solution
Let be the midpoint of , be the midpoint of , on the foot of the altitude from , and let be the intersection point of and .

Because is a diameter of the circumcircle, , so is perpendicular to and is perpendicular to . Because is on the altitude which is perpendicular to , we get . Similarly, is perpendicular to and so . This shows that is a parallelogram and is the intersection point of its diagonals. Hence is the midpoint of and thus is on the nine point circle.
Because is a diameter of the circle, . As are the midpoints of and , respectively, we obtain . Because as well, the quadrilateral is cyclic.
As and are on the nine point circle, is on that circle as well.

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