Finding Electric Field of Charged Ring w/ 2 Lines Intersecting

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I got a question that has a charged ring, with two lines of charge that intersect it. So it looks like a circle with a cross in it. I am asked to give the electric field. Would it just be the sum of each of the electric field from each part? So Etotal= Ering + Eline + Eline
 

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