PROBLEM 7-17 Comparing Traditional and Activity-Based Product Margins LO7-1, LO7-3, LO7-4, L.07-5 Smoky Mountain Corporation makes two types of hiking boots - the Xtreme and the Pathfinder. Data concerning these two product lines appear below: 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: Required: 1. Using Exhibit 713 as a guide, compute the product margins for the Xtreme and the Pathfinder products under the company's traditional costing system. 2. The company is considering Feplacing 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): Using Exhibit 7-11 as a guide, compute the product margins for the Xtreme and the Pathfinder products under the activity-based costing system. 3. Using Exhibit 7-14 as a guide, prepare a quantitative comparison of the traditional and activity-based cost assignments. Explain why the traditional and activity-based cost assignments differ