Exam Prep: Electric Field - Is It Zero?

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Homework Statement
Two infinite plane sheets with uniform surface charge densities
+ sigma and - sigma are placed parallel to each other with separation d.
In the region between the sheets, where does the total electric
field have the greatest magnitude?
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I'm having an exam soon so i want to make sure. Is the electric field here zero?? cause if i draw gauss surface covering both of them they should cancel out or am i wrong.
 
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