Hi-Tek Manufacturing, Incorporated, makes two types of industrial component parts-the B300 and the T500. An absorption costing income statement for the most recent period is shown: Hi-Tek Manufacturing Incorporated Income Statement Sales Cost of goods sold Selling and administrative expenses Gross margin Net operating loss $ 1,695,400 1,244,856 450,544 620,000 $ (169,456) Hi-Tek produced and sold 60,200 units of B300 at a price of $20 per unit and 12,600 units of T500 at a price of $39 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: Direct materials Direct labor Manufacturing overhead Cost of goods sold B300 T500 $ 400,900 $ 162,300 $ 120,400 $ 42,000 Total $ 563,200 162,400 519,256 $ 1,244,856 The company has created an activity-based costing system to evaluate the profitability of its products. Hi-Tek's ABC implementation team concluded that $54,000 and $108,000 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 Required: Manufacturing Overhead $ 208,216 149,240 100,800 B300 90,600 Activity T500 Total 62,500 153,100 74 290 364 1 1 2 61,000 $ 519,256 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.