This problem is a little interesting actually if you look at it...
So we have 100y^2-49 notice that 100 and 49 are perfect squares (10^2 = 100 and 7^2 =49). Thus we have:
100y^2 - 49 = [(10^2)(y^2) - (7^2)]
and we want to factor this polynomial, we notice there is no middle term with a 1st degree coefficient for y, so we can assume that its a (a+y)(a-y) kind of format, just a good place to start. Plus this is format is confirmed by the fact that we have those perfect squares present. So moving on to the Solution: