Conditional expectation binomial

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Toss $n$ coins. What is the conditional expectation of the number of heads given the number of heads among the first x tosses?

I let $X \sim Bin (x, 0.5)$ and $Y \sim Bin (n-x , 0.5)$

where $X$ is the number of heads in the first $x$ tosses and $Y$ is the number of heads in the remaining tosses

I let $Z=X+Y$ so Z $ \sim Bin (n, p) $

I need to find $ \mathbb{E} (Z \mid $ X=x)

I have tried to apply the formula $ \mathbb{E}(Z \mid X=x) = \sum_{i}z_i p (z_i \mid x_j)$

But I'm not sure where to proceed.