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: [63, 25, 275, 134, 31, 36, 142, 91, 233, 10, 125, 151, 80, 167, 212, 287, 262, 94, 225, 227], k=11

A: 142
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Q: [55, 246, 14, 54, 103, 101, 213, 70, 183, 200, 250, 97, 221, 282, 19, 252, 228, 59, 13, 204], k=13

A: 204
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Q: [273, 12, 97, 267, 96, 60, 289, 95, 248, 120, 255, 275, 257, 122, 78, 191, 179, 167, 116, 79], k=16

A:
257
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