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	$	121.00		$	88.00
Direct materials per unit	$	64.70		$	54.00
Direct labor per unit	$	10.80		$	9.00
Direct labor-hours per unit		1.2	DLHs		1.0	DLHs
Estimated annual production and sales		25,000	units		71,000	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	$2,020,000
Estimated total direct labor-hours	101,000 DLHs

Required:
1.	Compute the product margins for the Xtreme and the Pathfinder products under the companys traditional costing system. (Do not round your intermediate calculations.)
	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) $ 606,000 30,000 71,000 101,000 Batch setups (setups) 693,000 360 270 630 Product sustaining (number of products) 700,000 1 1 2 Other 21,000 NA NA NA Total manufacturing overhead cost $ 2,020,000 Compute the product margins for the Xtreme and the Pathfinder products under the activity-based costing system. (Negative product 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))