The vertices of two acute triangles all lie on a same circle. The midpoints of two sides of one triangle both lie on the nine-point circle of the other triangle. Show that the two triangles share the same nine-point circle.
Solution
The proof is based on a well-known fact recalled in the lemma below.
Lemma. Let be a triangle and let and be its circumcentre and nine-point centre, respectively. Then the reflexion of in the line lies on the line , and is the midpoint of the segment .


If and do not coincide, then they are clearly the reflexion of one another in the line , and, consequently, so are their centres. Let be the centre of . By the lemma, the nine-point centre of the triangle is the midpoint of the segment which in turn is the centre of and the conclusion follows.
If and coincide, recall that the homotheties mapping to are: one of ratio centred at the orthocentre of the triangle ; and one of ratio centred at the centroid of the triangle . Consequently, , so the triangle is right-angled which case is ruled out by hypothesis.