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: [297, 154, 166, 65, 256, 282, 150, 241, 67, 255, 79, 232, 27, 192, 81, 298, 144, 155, 252, 111], k=11

Answer: 166


Question: [67, 157, 179, 171, 221, 292, 275, 125, 54, 113, 209, 232, 16, 15, 81, 178, 174, 168, 69, 90], k=12

Answer: 171


Question: [197, 137, 127, 76, 283, 205, 136, 106, 207, 194, 168, 251, 57, 164, 75, 151, 176, 212, 299, 297], k=13

Answer:
197