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: [239, 110, 47, 43, 56, 185, 243, 72, 159, 130, 274, 122, 230, 148, 280, 296, 116, 11, 179, 294], k=1

Answer: 11


Question: [104, 39, 124, 288, 19, 77, 140, 177, 34, 57, 215, 46, 47, 285, 243, 105, 201, 293, 12, 86], k=5

Answer: 46


Question: [46, 190, 169, 73, 62, 197, 289, 45, 193, 203, 191, 233, 128, 281, 14, 224, 185, 86, 94, 108], k=8

Answer:
108