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 $ 1,755,600 Cost of goods sold 1,232,179 Gross margin 523,421 Selling and administrative expenses 630,000 Net operating loss $ (106,579) Hi-Tek produced and sold 60,200 units of B300 at a price of $21 per unit and 12,600 units of T500 at a price of $39 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 $ 400,800 $ 162,300 $ 563,100 Direct labor $ 120,400 $ 42,300 162,700 Manufacturing overhead 506,379 Cost of goods sold $ 1,232,179 The company has created an activity-based costing system to evaluate the profitability of its products. Hi-Teks ABC implementation team concluded that $59,000 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: Activity Cost Pool (and Activity Measure) Manufacturing Overhead Activity B300 T500 Total Machining (machine-hours) $ 209,199 90,500 62,200 152,700 Setups (setup hours) 136,080 74 250 324 Product-sustaining (number of products) 101,000 1 1 2 Other (organization-sustaining costs) 60,100 NA NA NA Total manufacturing overhead cost $ 506,379 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.