Hi-Tek Manufacturing, Incorporated, 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 Incorporated Income Statement Sales $ 1,645,900 Cost of goods sold 1,219,906 Gross margin 425,994 Selling and administrative expenses 560,000 Net operating loss $ (134,006) Hi-Tek produced and sold 60,100 units of B300 at a price of $19 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 $ 400,000 $ 162,600 $ 562,600 Direct labor $ 120,400 $ 42,300 162,700 Manufacturing overhead 494,606 Cost of goods sold $ 1,219,906 The company has created an activity-based costing system to evaluate the profitability of its products. Hi-Teks ABC implementation team concluded that $52,000 and $104,000 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: Activity Cost Pool (and Activity Measure) Manufacturing Overhead Activity B300 T500 Total Machining (machine-hours) $ 199,906 90,200 62,400 152,600 Setups (setup hours) 133,300 70 240 310 Product-sustaining (number of products) 100,600 1 1 2 Other (organization-sustaining costs) 60,800 NA NA NA Total manufacturing overhead cost $ 494,606 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