Splitting a Shared Signal

Two trading desks book daily P&Ls X X and Y Y that are independent and identically distributed standard normal random variables (in millions). At the close, management learns only the combined figure: X+Y=z X + Y = z . What is the conditional expectation E[X∣X+Y=z] E[X \mid X + Y = z] ?

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