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: [63, 25, 275, 134, 31, 36, 142, 91, 233, 10, 125, 151, 80, 167, 212, 287, 262, 94, 225, 227], k=11

A: 142
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Q: [87, 249, 118, 103, 114, 204, 124, 12, 292, 17, 197, 239, 189, 219, 93, 205, 149, 260, 41, 272], k=20

A: 292
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Q: [101, 139, 185, 11, 275, 198, 126, 215, 38, 161, 13, 176, 242, 189, 92, 222, 79, 25, 109, 216], k=20

A:
275
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