Thinning a Poisson Stream

Bug reports arrive at a software team's queue according to a Poisson process averaging λ=6 \lambda = 6 reports per month. Independently of everything else, each individual report turns out to be a critical severity with probability 0.3 0.3 . On average, how many critical reports land in the queue each month?

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