A city is served by two newspapers Solution let the steady state probabilities for The Tribune and Daily news be p and q respectively once in the steady state, one more transition won\'t change the probabilities, which means .65p + .45q = p ....... [ I ] .35p + .55q = q ...... [ II ] and, of course, p+q = 1 [ III ] solving this simple system yields p = 0.5625, q = 0.4375.