How could I find the total electric field in this question?

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Hello. There is a semicircle charged ring and I found the electric field at the origin. But there is an also extra charge near the origin and the total electric field is zero. I need the charge. I'm trying to solve the 1-b question in the image.
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Electric field.
The electric field due to the semicircle is 2kQ/pi.Rsquare
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I found that. Is that true?
 

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haruspex said:
Having solved a, b looks rather straightforward.
Please post an attempt as per forum rules.

Kq/aSquare=2kQ/piRsquare,
So q=2QaSquare/piRsquare
Is that true?
 
You already found the electric field at centre due to semicircular ring. Find the field due to point charge placed at distance 'a'. Check the directions and add them vectorially (basically just equate them:wink:).

P.S. You got the right answer.
 
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Aryamaan Thakur said:
You already found the electric field at centre due to semicircular ring. Find the field due to point charge placed at distance 'a'. Check the directions and add them vectorially (basically just equate them:wink:).

P.S. You got the right answer.
Thank you so much :)