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Claudia has a rectangular flowerbed. She decided that the original width w, in feet, was too small, so she increased the width by 3 feet. She also changed the length to be 1 foot less than twice the original width. The new area of her flowerbed is 72 square feet. How many feet wide was the original flowerbed?

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