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 Gross margin Selling and administrative expenses Net operating loss Hi-Tek produced and sold 60,400 units of B300 at a price of $20 per unit and 12,700 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 $ 1,703,300 1,236,624 466,676 560,000 $ (93,324) 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 B300 $ 400,100 $ 120,700 T500 $ 162,500 $ 42,300 The company has created an activity-based costing system to evaluate the profitability of its products. Hi-Tek's ABC implementation team concluded that $50,000 and $110,000 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: Manufacturing Overhead Total $ 562,600 163,000 511,024 $ 1,236,624 $ 202,224 147,600 100,400 60,800 $ 511,024 B300 90,400 80 1 NA Activity T500 62,800 280 1 NA Total 153,200 360 2 ΝΑ Required: 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.