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	$	1,704,000
Cost of goods sold		1,250,524
Gross margin		453,476
Selling and administrative expenses		630,000
Net operating loss	$	(176,524	)

Hi-Tek produced and sold 60,000 units of B300 at a price of $20 per unit and 12,600 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	$	162,900	$	563,100
Direct labor	$	120,700	$	42,700		163,400
Manufacturing overhead						524,024
Cost of goods sold					$	1,250,524

The company has created an activity-based costing system to evaluate the profitability of its products. Hi-Teks ABC implementation team concluded that $55,000 and $101,000 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)	$	205,824		90,800	62,800	153,600
Setups (setup hours)		156,200		75	280	355
Product-sustaining (number of products)		102,000		1	1	2
Other (organization-sustaining costs)		60,000		NA	NA	NA
Total manufacturing overhead cost	$	524,024

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.