Puzzle: Pizza Points

You were looking back at some old memories from puzzle hunts at Two Sigma. Of course, you kept careful logs of all your data from each one, trying to answer the question of if eating more pizza means you can solve puzzles faster. Sadly, the data seems to show the opposite, with a correlation of 95% between meta-puzzle solve time and pizza eaten, but no matter.

After taking one moment, and then a second moment to look at the results again, there seems to be some other pattern in this data!

pizza data

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