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: [279, 243, 65, 227, 115, 147, 176, 235, 99, 61, 63, 299, 219, 139, 113, 92, 280, 220, 90, 249], k=9

Answer: 139


Question: [212, 240, 80, 64, 221, 163, 75, 242, 182, 13, 123, 100, 74, 24, 165, 167, 158, 289, 77, 145], k=15

Answer: 182


Question: [209, 36, 151, 99, 21, 91, 38, 230, 289, 204, 33, 254, 278, 115, 137, 24, 76, 174, 118, 126], k=9

Answer:
115