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: [202, 16, 28, 103, 294, 94, 32, 152, 284, 131, 177, 269, 72, 49, 64, 183, 98, 89, 217, 286], k=11

Answer: 131


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: [166, 218, 91, 148, 31, 180, 202, 24, 231, 168, 125, 246, 179, 25, 236, 70, 160, 33, 50, 99], k=16

Answer:
202