Resetting Preview to default PDf reader

I installed Abode Reader 9 and now i cant use Preview to open PDFs. How can i reset the default to Preview?

Thanks, the file however cant be selected in Finder as it is from a school website and is not something i am downoading. Perhaps it isnt even Finder that i require, jut whatever the original default viewer was, i dont have AReader anymore and dont want to rely on it. How do i reset it so Safari opens PDFs as it would before i changed the default to Adobe Reader.

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