Not exactly sure what it means to expand the product. But to solve, you always do what's in the paranthesis first. So 2 x 4 = 8. The little number 2 means squared or to the power of, which bascially means you multiply the number by how ever many it tells you. So since it says 8 to the power of 2, you just multiply 8 x 8 which equals 64.
