A simple question regarding spheres and spherical shells

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Moved my question to Intro Physics. Mods feel free to delete.
 
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I found the answer online. Apparently

[tex]\sigma=\rho dr'[/tex].

This doesn't really make sense to me. Can anyone clear up why this is so?