Can someone check if my proof is correct?

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I was working a tutorial and it had this proof listed below. It says that S is a closed surface and H is a region $$\int_S \frac{\textbf{r.n}}{r^2} dS\, = \int_H \frac{dH}{r^2} \,$$

My approach towards this question was that r = xi +yj + zk then if we try to find n it is equal to

$$\frac{grad{\phi}}{\mid grad{\phi}\mid} = \frac{(1,1,1)}{\sqrt{3}}$$

Therefore if we open dS, we would end up with the following

$$\int_{S'} \frac{\textbf{r.n}}{{r^2}}\frac{{dS'}}{{\textbf{n.k}}} \,$$

If we take k to be equal to (0,0,1), we would end up with the following equation,

$$\int_{S'} \frac{{\textbf{r}}.(1,1,1)}{{r^2}}\frac{{dS'}}{{1}} \,$$

Then r could be changed to (x,y,z)

$$\int_{S'} \frac{{(x,y,z)}.(1,1,1)}{{r^2}}dS' \,$$

Therefore

$$\int_{S'} \frac{{(x,y,z)}}{{r^2}}dS' \,$$

Then changing for region H

$$\iiint_H \frac{{(x,y,z)}}{{r^2}}dxdydz \,$$

is equal to

$$\int_{H} \frac{{dH}}{{r^2}} \,$$

Can somebody please check if my approach is correct?

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Hint

$$\nabla\cdot\left({\hat{r}\over r}\right) = {1\over r^2}$$