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	$	1,714,000
Cost of goods sold		1,248,178
Gross margin		465,822
Selling and administrative expenses		630,000
Net operating loss	$	(164,178	)

Hi-Tek produced and sold 60,100 units of B300 at a price of $20 per unit and 12,800 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	$	400,300	$	162,200	$	562,500
Direct labor	$	120,300	$	42,500		162,800
Manufacturing overhead						522,878
Cost of goods sold					$	1,248,178

The company has created an activity-based costing system to evaluate the profitability of its products. Hi-Teks ABC implementation team concluded that $53,000 and $107,000 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)	$	212,948		90,300	62,900	153,200
Setups (setup hours)		148,830		73	290	363
Product-sustaining (number of products)		101,000		1	1	2
Other (organization-sustaining costs)		60,100		NA	NA	NA
Total manufacturing overhead cost	$	522,878

Required: Please show all steps and math equations used to find the answers, please!

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.