$1.$ Compute the product margins for the Xtreme and the Pathfinder products under the company$$s traditional costing system.

$2.$ The company is considering replacing its traditional costing system with an activity$-$based costing system that would assign its manufacturing overhead to the following four activity cost pools $($the Other cost pool includes organization$-$sustaining costs and idle capacity costs$)$:

$3.$ Prepare a quantitative comparison of the traditional and activity$-$based cost assignments.