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: [61, 280, 285, 77, 54, 21, 204, 118, 170, 89, 93, 80, 215, 296, 184, 38, 68, 144, 121, 207], k=6

Answer: 77


Question: [117, 183, 174, 274, 192, 42, 204, 260, 100, 210, 214, 136, 255, 98, 50, 235, 219, 277, 106, 186], k=16

Answer: 235


Question: [232, 161, 31, 102, 107, 237, 89, 110, 238, 190, 84, 291, 100, 251, 127, 262, 120, 76, 119, 261], k=2

Answer:
76