Rate of change of ordinates and abscissae

Question

The question that I am stuck at goes like this:

On the curve $y^3=27x$, the absolute value of rate of change of ordinate is greater than the absolute value of rate of change of abscissa in the interval:

1. $(-\infty, -3)$
2. $(-3,3)$
3. $\phi$
4. $(3,\infty)$

The answer is given as option (2). The detailed solution is given as:

Now what I don't understand is:

I tried plotting this problem in GeoGebra. (the function input is same as the original function in the question)

From the question I inferred that they asked in which interval $\frac{dy}{dx}>1$. Fine!

From the graph, it looks like (-1,1) should be the interval, which does not coincide with the answer given.

Did I miss out on anything?

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Answer 1

Be careful. It's true that we're looking for points on the graph of $y^3 = 27x$ where $\frac{\mathrm{d}y}{\mathrm{d}x} > 1$, and indeed those are the points where $x \in (-1, 1)$.

But the answer is looking at the ordinates, i.e. $y \in (-3, 3)$.