Can you please help me

Monica build a remote control toy airplane for science project to test the plane she launched it from the top of a building the plane travel a horizontal distance of 50 feet before landing on the ground a quadratic function which models the height of the plane in feet relative to the ground at a horizontal distance of x feet from the building is shown

It says factor each expression 49x-28?

How do i start to solve? would appreciate a walk-thru! a bird sitting 16ft above the ground in an apple tree dislodges an apple. after how many seconds does the apple land on the ground? (assuming that no branches will interfere with it's fall)