Charges are placed on the vertices of a square as shown. Let $E$ be the electric field and $V$ the potential at the centre. If the charges on $A$ and $B$ are interchanged with those on $D$ and $C$ respectively, then 
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$E$ changes because it is a vector quantity and  $V$ is a scalar quantity, thus electric field changes and $V$ remains unchanged.
 
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