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Calculating and interpreting residuals

Problem

Zhang Lei creates and sells wreaths. On her website, she gives the diameter, in inches, and weight, in pounds, of each wreath. An approximate least-squares regression line was used to predict the weight from a given diameter.
Interpret the residual for the wreath indicated in the scatterplot above.
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