Smoky Mountain Corporation makes two types of hiking bootsthe Xtreme and the Pathfinder. Data concerning these two product lines appear below:

	Xtreme			Pathfinder
Selling price per unit	$	115.00		$	85.00
Direct materials per unit	$	65.40		$	53.00
Direct labor per unit	$	16.00		$	10.00
Direct labor-hours per unit		1.6	DLHs		1.0	DLHs
Estimated annual production and sales		32,000	units		60,000	units

The company has a traditional costing system in which manufacturing overhead is applied to units based on direct labor-hours. Data concerning manufacturing overhead and direct labor-hours for the upcoming year appear below:

Estimated total manufacturing overhead	$	1,779,200
Estimated total direct labor-hours		111,200	DLHs

Required:

1. Compute the product margins for the Xtreme and the Pathfinder products under the companys traditional costing system.

2. The company is considering replacing its traditional costing system with an activity-based costing system that would assign its manufacturing overhead to the following four activity cost pools (the Other cost pool includes organization-sustaining costs and idle capacity costs):

	Estimated Overhead Cost			Expected Activity
Activities and Activity Measures				Xtreme	Pathfinder	Total
Supporting direct labor (direct labor-hours)	$	556,000		51,200	60,000	111,200
Batch setups (setups)		770,000		430	340	770
Product sustaining (number of products)		400,000		1	1	2
Other		53,200		NA	NA	NA
Total manufacturing overhead cost	$	1,779,200

Compute the product margins for the Xtreme and the Pathfinder products under the activity-based costing system.

3. Prepare a quantitative comparison of the traditional and activity-based cost assignments.

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Compute the product margins for the Xtreme and the Pathfinder products under the activity-based costing system. (Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places.)

	Xtreme	Pathfinder	Total
Product margin			$0