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Because the charges are identical, they repel each other. Therefore the direction of the force that A exerts on B is directed from A to B (outside the triangle ABC ). The direction of the force that C exerts on B is from C to B (also outside the triangle ABC ).
The net force is the vector sum of these two forces. Both forces have equal magnitude F and the angle between them is 90 degrees, and the magnitude of the net force is the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle with the legs of length F. It is F*sqrt(2) (this is the answer for "an expression").
The direction of the net force is 45 degrees to both forces outside of the triangle ABC, because the parallelogram of forces is a square in this case. Please look at the picture attached.
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