In this task, you are given a list of integers and an integer k. You need to find the kth smallest element in the input list and return that.

Q: [88, 138, 230, 71, 119, 274, 257, 233, 10, 293, 49, 245, 35, 205, 36, 161, 63, 147, 87, 114], k=8

A: 88
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Q: [275, 200, 282, 39, 14, 78, 85, 228, 225, 136, 34, 52, 89, 135, 17, 41, 218, 37, 196, 119], k=17

A: 225
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Q: [253, 29, 14, 89, 230, 208, 108, 150, 258, 211, 214, 21, 284, 106, 278, 241, 40, 186, 123, 44], k=17

A:
253
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