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: [235, 118, 154, 225, 98, 42, 134, 239, 60, 174, 141, 243, 206, 75, 241, 195, 262, 211, 258, 144], k=19

A: 258
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Q: [284, 89, 95, 83, 153, 140, 26, 16, 101, 86, 132, 278, 274, 269, 215, 162, 165, 168, 27, 192], k=5

A: 86
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Q: [53, 203, 295, 77, 250, 297, 158, 172, 73, 64, 134, 175, 140, 135, 246, 270, 222, 98, 78, 31], k=17

A:
250
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