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Paul White has been studying his department's profitability reports for the past six months. He has just completed a managerial accounting course and is beginning to question the company's approach to allocating overhead to products based on machine hours: The current department overhead budget of $1,142,940 is based on 38.098 machine hours. In an initial analysis of overhead costs. Paul has identified the following activity cost pools. Poul White is taking the next step in his exploration of activity-based costing and wants to examine the overhead costs that would be allocated to two of the department's four products. He has gathered the following budget information about each product. (a) Calculate the total overhead allocated to each component under the traditional method using machine hours as the overhe application base. (b) Calculate the total overhead allocated to each component under activity-based costing. (Round overheod rates to 2 dech places, e.3. 5.27 and round final answers to 0 decimal places, e.8. 5,275.)