Hi-Tek Manufacturing, Inc., makes two types of industrial component parts-the B300 and the T500. An absorption costing income statement for the most recent period is shown: Hi-Tek Manufacturing Inc. Income Statement Sales Cost of goods sold Gross margin Selling and administrative expenses Net operating loss $ 1,772,400 1,257,004 515, 396 610,000 $ (94,604) Hi-Tek produced and sold 60,400 units of B300 at a price of $21 per unit and 12,600 units of T500 at a price of $40 per unit. The company's traditional cost system allocates manufacturing overhead to products using a plantwide overhead rate and direct labor dollars as the allocation base. Additional information relating to the company's two product lines is shown below: B300 T500 $ 400,300 $ 162,100 $ 120,800 $ 42,200 Direct materials Direct labor Manufacturing overhead Cost of goods sold Total $ 562,400 163,000 531,604 $ 1,257,004 The company has created an activity-based costing system to evaluate the profitability of its products. Hi-Tek's ABC implementation team concluded that $59,000 and $108,000 of the company's advertising expenses could be directly traced to B300 and T500, respectively. The remainder of the selling and administrative expenses was organization-sustaining in nature. The ABC team also distributed the company's manufacturing overhead to four activities as shown below: Manufacturing Overhead $ 209,884 159,720 101,800 60,200 Activity Cost Pool (and Activity Measure) Machining (machine-hours) Setups (setup hours) Product-sustaining (number of products) Other (organization-sustaining costs) Total manufacturing overhead cost Activity B300 T500 Total 90, 300 62,900 153,200 73 1 1 2 NA NA NA 290 363 $ 531,604 Required: 1. Compute the product margins for the B300 and T500 under the company's traditional costing system. 2. Compute the product margins for B300 and T500 under the activity-based costing system. 3. Prepare a quantitative comparison of the traditional and activity-based cost assignments