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: [42, 196, 182, 276, 226, 154, 296, 33, 167, 83, 36, 210, 112, 246, 149, 169, 159, 177, 84, 242], k=7

Answer: 149


Question: [98, 237, 179, 245, 268, 231, 97, 238, 174, 137, 153, 63, 168, 289, 50, 62, 57, 159, 81, 255], k=18

Answer: 255


Question: [101, 265, 235, 38, 208, 147, 204, 135, 97, 88, 129, 20, 181, 285, 74, 130, 203, 33, 228, 65], k=16

Answer:
208