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

	Xtreme			Pathfinder
Selling price per unit	$	175.00		$	125.00
Direct materials per unit	$	68		$	48
Direct labor per unit	$	26		$	15
Direct labor-hours per unit		2	DLHs		1.0	DLHs
Estimated annual production and sales		30,000	units		85,000	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	$2,250,000
Estimated total direct labor-hours	120,000 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		Expected Activity
Activities and Activity Measures	Overhead Cost		Xtreme	Pathfinder	Total
Supporting direct labor (direct labor-hours)	$	755,000	41,000	78,900	120,000
Batch setups (setups)		480,000	210	120	330
Product sustaining (number of products)		585,500	1	1	2
Other		80,000	NA	NA	NA
Total manufacturing overhead cost	$	1,900,500

Compute the product margins for the Xtreme and the Pathfinder products under the activity-based costing system. (Negative customer margins should be indicated with a minus sign. Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places.)

3.	Prepare a quantitative comparison of the traditional and activity-based cost assignments. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your "Percentage" answer to 1 decimal place. (i.e. .1234 should be entered as 12.3))