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Two Variables · Superchallenge problem

For a data set, the correlation between xx and yy is r=0.8r = 0.8. A least-squares line predicting yy from xx is fitted, giving residuals e=y−y^e = y - \hat y. What is the correlation between the residuals ee and the observed values yy?