What is the factorization of 121b4 − 49?

Rewrite 121b⁴ as (11b²)² and 49 as 7². Using the difference-of-squares rule, x² − y² = (x + y)(x − y), the factorization is (11b² + 7)(11b² − 7), which is choice D.

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