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: [124, 215, 224, 251, 261, 118, 255, 52, 77, 67, 36, 20, 167, 46, 97, 269, 198, 136, 291, 135], k=20

Answer: 291


Question: [160, 130, 171, 108, 35, 252, 210, 140, 261, 65, 203, 280, 95, 61, 165, 281, 32, 275, 176, 269], k=11

Answer: 171


Question: [53, 280, 105, 133, 146, 112, 237, 125, 120, 263, 204, 149, 59, 117, 137, 130, 172, 206, 82, 94], k=3

Answer:
82