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Electric Field from charged sphere within another charged sphere does not reinforce?

Lets say I have a positively charged conducting sphere of Q. The electric field outside the sphere is

$$E = \frac Q{4\epsilon\pi r^2}.$$

Now suppose this sphere is enclosed inside another hollow conducting sphere of -Q charge. By Gauss law, the electric field is still the same?

Won't the negatively charged outer sphere reinforce the electric field, causing it it be larger?

In another example,

The field from a infinite sheet of charge is

$$ E = \frac \sigma{2\epsilon}. $$

But the field between 2 oppositely charged infinite sheets is

$$ E = \frac \sigma{\epsilon}. $$

Why is this not the case above?

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