Answer:
The answer is D. (8•4 ) + (2•4) + 2
Notice that you have a difference of cubes:

which can be factored using the rule,

So,

and just to make things look nicer, we can pull out 1/6 from the first factor and 1/36 from the second to get

Yes it is. log(1) and ln(1) both equal zero. But you cannot take the logarithm of 0.