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Simple linear regression

Var(YiYˉ)=Var(Yi)+Var(Yˉ)2Cov(Yi,Yˉ)=σ2+σ2n2Cov(Yi,Yˉ) \text{Var}(Y_i - \bar{Y}) = \text{Var}(Y_i) + \text{Var}(\bar{Y})- 2\text{Cov}(Y_i,\bar{Y}) = \sigma^2 + \dfrac{\sigma^2}{n} - 2\text{Cov}(Y_i, \bar{Y})
Since, in simple linear regression Var(Yi)=σ2 \text{Var}(Y_i) = \sigma^2 and Var(Yˉ)=σ2n \text{Var}(\bar{Y}) = \dfrac{\sigma^2}{n}

I'm not sure how to find Cov(Yi,Yˉ) \text{Cov}(Y_i, \bar{Y}) .
I started by doing Cov(Yi,1ni=1nYi)=1nCov(Yi,i=1nYi) \text{Cov}(Y_i, \dfrac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^n Y_i) = \dfrac{1}{n}\text{Cov}(Y_i, \sum_{i=1}^n Y_i), as 1/n is some constant. But i also in simple linear regression Cov(Yi,Yi)=Var(Yi)=σ2 \text{Cov}(Y_i, Y_i) = \text{Var}(Y_i) = \sigma^2.

Don't know what to do from here on as i have that summation involved.
Any help would be great!

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