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: [275, 200, 282, 39, 14, 78, 85, 228, 225, 136, 34, 52, 89, 135, 17, 41, 218, 37, 196, 119], k=17

Answer: 225


Question: [169, 122, 46, 138, 119, 49, 212, 26, 154, 200, 38, 100, 31, 125, 50, 65, 94, 175, 59, 20], k=7

Answer: 50


Question: [291, 47, 288, 27, 145, 228, 94, 219, 240, 148, 76, 48, 68, 10, 44, 229, 38, 239, 188, 59], k=13

Answer:
188