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.
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Question: [212, 21, 189, 206, 221, 284, 278, 196, 104, 122, 30, 48, 237, 291, 208, 293, 145, 137, 259, 135], k=2

Answer: 30


Question: [88, 150, 274, 260, 168, 95, 279, 108, 19, 296, 247, 107, 132, 210, 177, 284, 161, 223, 231, 185], k=6

Answer: 132


Question: [90, 107, 78, 117, 51, 37, 210, 186, 155, 81, 245, 214, 203, 190, 67, 149, 99, 116, 21, 89], k=18

Answer:
210