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

Answer: 179


Question: [193, 150, 74, 50, 282, 231, 174, 238, 176, 67, 130, 113, 239, 165, 173, 162, 216, 136, 59, 177], k=12

Answer: 174


Question: [90, 110, 222, 54, 223, 287, 43, 153, 17, 218, 87, 130, 244, 297, 159, 267, 272, 55, 248, 86], k=8

Answer:
110