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Smoky Mountain Corporation makes two types of hiking boots-the Xtreme and the Pathfinder. Data concerning these two product lines appear below: The company has a traditional costing system in which manufacturing overhead is applied to units based on direct labor-hours. Data concerning manufacturing overhead and direct labor-hours for the upcoming year appear below: Required: 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 foliowing four activity cost pools (the Other cost pool includes organization-sustaining costs and idle capacity costs): Compute the product margins for the Xireme and the Pathfinder products under the activity-based costing system. 3. Prepare a quantitative comparison of the traditional and activity-based cost assignments