Automatically open document with Pages 5

When I upgraded from Pages 4.3 to 5x, documents were automatically set by the installation to all open with version 5.0.x . Due to some initial problems with Pages 5, I changed the setting so that Pages 4.3 opened all documents. I did that by command-i, get info, open with Pages 4.3, and change all.
Now I want to default back to opening with pages 5.0.1, but if I do the same procedure (command-i, get info, open with Pages 5, and change all), Pages is still opening documents with version 4.3.

All Pages files no matter what version and incompatibility have the same extension .pages.
That makes it impossible to get the System to stick with a choice in Finder.
Trash/archive whichever one you don't want.
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