If beauty pageants are abolished, then our sense of values will improve. Beauty pageants will not be abolished. Therefore, our sense of values will not improve.
A) Deductive, valid.
B) Inductive, weak.
C) Inductive, cogent.
D) Deductive, invalid.
E) Deductive, cogent.

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The argument is deductive, as it begins with a general statement and leads to a specific conclusion. However, the argument is invalid, as the premise that abolishing beauty pageants would improve our sense of values is not necessarily true. Therefore, the conclusion does not logically follow from the premise, and the argument is not cogent.

If Beauty Pageants Are Abolished, Then Our Sense of Values