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 Cost of goods sold Gross margin Selling and administrative expenses Net operating loss $ 1,643,800 1, 239,545 404, 255 640,000 $ (235, 745) Hi-Tek produced and sold 60,200 units of B300 at a price of $19 per unit and 12,500 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 $ 400, 400 $ 120,100 T500 $ 162,600 $ 42,700 Direct materials Direct labor Manufacturing overhead Cost of goods sold Total $ 563,000 162,800 513,745 $ 1,239,545 The company has created an activity-based costing system aluate the profitability of its products. Hi-Tek's ABC implementation team concluded that $56,000 and $105,000 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: 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 Manufacturing Overhead $ 202,825 149,520 101,400 60,000 $ 513,745 Activity B300 T500 Total 90,200 62,300 152,500 76 280 356 1 2 NA NA NA 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