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.

Q: [207, 198, 256, 176, 228, 201, 72, 241, 284, 203, 28, 230, 223, 80, 249, 266, 111, 98, 104, 170], k=8

A: 176
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Q: [234, 140, 29, 61, 116, 256, 183, 137, 255, 265, 245, 122, 200, 63, 50, 155, 28, 154, 39, 271], k=17

A: 255
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Q: [263, 16, 235, 19, 299, 195, 24, 191, 70, 93, 63, 11, 272, 276, 197, 232, 98, 291, 186, 265], k=5

A:
63
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