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: [11, 278, 43, 255, 83, 18, 268, 283, 288, 222, 31, 294, 17, 209, 71, 75, 57, 24, 91, 149], k=2

Answer: 17


Question: [137, 90, 208, 53, 235, 288, 134, 195, 234, 31, 215, 258, 192, 296, 20, 135, 106, 166, 243, 253], k=3

Answer: 53


Question: [178, 142, 146, 64, 29, 225, 162, 274, 62, 51, 177, 263, 80, 173, 179, 282, 58, 164, 172, 271], k=15

Answer:
179