Find the number of hatched eggs that are independent

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Question: Suppose an insect lays a Poisson (λ) number of eggs. Suppose each egg hatches with probability p and dies with probability q, independently of each other egg. Show that the number of eggs that hatch and the number of eggs that die are independent Poisson random variables, and find their parameters.

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