Calculation of conditional probability

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A problem as following: (from Prob, statistics, and random processes for electric engineering, p.264)


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If I want to find $P(Y\leq y \mid X=+1)$, it can be calculated as following: $P[N+1\leq y]$. It is obvious. (As book did)

My question is why not: $\dfrac{P(Y\leq y,X=+1)}{P(X=+1)}$.

How to make sure both of them equal?

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$$\frac{P(Y\leq y,X=+1)}{P(X=+1)}=\frac{P(Y\leq y|X=+1)\cdot P(X=+1)}{P(X=+1)}=P(Y\leq y|X=+1)=P(X+N\leq y|X=+1)=P(1+N\leq y)$$ In other words $P(Y\leq y,X=+1)=P(1+N\leq y)\cdot P(X=+1)$