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	$ 1,705,300
Cost of goods sold	1,228,385
Gross margin	476,915
Selling and administrative expenses	570,000
Net operating loss	$ (93,085)

Hi-Tek produced and sold 60,500 units of B300 at a price of $20 per unit and 12,700 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	$ 163,000	$ 563,800
Direct labor	$ 120,400	$ 42,800	163,200
Manufacturing overhead			501,385
Cost of goods sold			$ 1,228,385

The company has created an activity-based costing system to evaluate the profitability of its products. Hi-Teks ABC implementation team concluded that $50,000 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:

Activity Cost Pool (and Activity Measure)	Manufacturing Overhead	Activity
		B300	T500	Total
Machining (machine-hours)	$ 206,685	91,000	62,100	153,100
Setups (setup hours)	132,800	72	260	332
Product-sustaining (number of products)	101,200	1	1	2
Other (organization-sustaining costs)	60,700	NA	NA	NA
Total manufacturing overhead cost	$ 501,385

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.

Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. Compute the product margins for the B300 and T500 under the company's traditional costing system. (Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places and final answers to the nearest whole dollar amount.) Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. Compute the product margins for B300 and T500 under the activity-based costing system. (Negative product margins should be indicated by a minus sign. Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places.) Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. Prepare a quantitative comparison of the traditional and activity-based cost assignments. (Round your intermediate calculatic decimal places and "Percentage" answers to 1 decimal place and and other answers to the nearest whole dollar amounts.)