Hi-Tek Manufacturing, Inc., makes two types of industrial component partsthe B300 and the T500. An absorption costing income statement for the most recent period is shown:

Hi-Tek Manufacturing Inc. Income Statement
Sales	$	1,772,200
Cost of goods sold		1,242,784
Gross margin		529,416
Selling and administrative expenses		630,000
Net operating loss	$	(100,584	)

Hi-Tek produced and sold 60,200 units of B300 at a price of $21 per unit and 12,700 units of T500 at a price of $40 per unit. The companys 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 companys two product lines is shown below:

	B300		T500		Total
Direct materials	$	400,200	$	162,500	$	562,700
Direct labor	$	120,300	$	43,000		163,300
Manufacturing overhead						516,784
Cost of goods sold					$	1,242,784

The company has created an activity-based costing system to evaluate the profitability of its products. Hi-Teks ABC implementation team concluded that $51,000 and $102,000 of the companys 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 companys manufacturing overhead to four activities as shown below:

	Manufacturing Overhead			Activity
Activity Cost Pool (and Activity Measure)				B300	T500	Total
Machining (machine-hours)	$	209,884		90,900	62,300	153,200
Setups (setup hours)		146,200		80	260	340
Product-sustaining (number of products)		100,400		1	1	2
Other (organization-sustaining costs)		60,300		NA	NA	NA
Total manufacturing overhead cost	$	516,784

Required:

1. Compute the product margins for the B300 and T500 under the companys 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.