What is $\text{Cov}(X/Y, Y)$?

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I've been searching the answer to my question (https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/476156/how-to-estimate-the-correlation-between-ratio-and-ratios-denominator) and think that it might be formulated like this as well. Is there an answer?

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For any two random variables $Z,W$, we have $$\operatorname{Cov}(Z,W)=\operatorname{E}[ZW]-\operatorname{E}[Z]\operatorname{E}[W].$$

Therefore,

$$\operatorname{Cov}\left({\frac{X}{Y},Y}\right)=\operatorname{E}[X]-\operatorname{E}[X/Y]E[Y]$$