Electric Potential: Finding Given Radius & Charge Density

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how do you find the electric potential given the radius of a sphere and the surafce charge density?
 

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Is this a homework question? If so, you need to provide some workings. As an initial hint, can you use symmetry and Gauss's law to some effect?
 

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