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Between the two outer plate, there are two regions with different electric field. One is outside capacitor B, the electric field is from capacitor A only (we name it as region 1). And another one is inside capacitor B, the electric field is from both capacitors (we name it as region 2).Let d become the distance between plates of capacitor B. So region 2 has width of d, and region 1 also has width of d. And if A is area of the plates, C will equal to:



Because the capacitors are in series, they have same charge, Q. So we can say that electric field in region 2 is twice of electric field in region 1.
We know that electric field between two plates of a capacitor is , so electric fields in region 1 and region 2 are:



Therefore, the voltage between capacitor A's plates is:



And the voltage between capacitor B's plates is:



The total voltage is sum of these two voltage.





So the total capacitance is:



That's my solution.
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