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Hi-Tek Manufacturing Inc. makes two types of industrial component partsthe B300 and the T500. An absorption costing income statement for the most recent period is shown below:

Hi-Tek Manufacturing Inc. Income Statement
Sales	$	1,691,400
Cost of goods sold		1,210,676
Gross margin		480,724
Selling and administrative expenses		610,000
Net operating loss	$	(129,276)

Hi-Tek produced and sold 60,000 units of B300 at a price of $20 per unit and 12,600 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	$	400,200			$	162,400			$	562,600
Direct labor	$	120,400			$	42,000				162,400
Manufacturing overhead										485,676
Cost of goods sold									$	1,210,676

The company has created an activity-based costing system to evaluate the profitability of its products. Hi-Teks ABC implementation team concluded that $55,000 and $101,000 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:

	Manufacturing				Activity
Activity Cost Pool (and Activity Measure)	Overhead					B300			T500			Total
Machining (machine-hours)	$	207,536				90,100			62,500			152,600
Setups (setup hours)		116,340				77			200			277
Product-sustaining (number of products)		101,000				1			1			2
Other (organization-sustaining costs)		60,800				NA			NA			NA
Total manufacturing overhead cost	$	485,676

Required

1. Compute the product margins for the B300 and T500 under the companys traditional costing system. (Do not round your overhead rate. Round your other intermediate and final answers to the nearest whole number.)

2. 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.)

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

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