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: [180, 257, 70, 83, 264, 61, 245, 125, 50, 285, 121, 163, 79, 290, 54, 293, 170, 174, 64, 244], k=20

Answer: 293


Question: [278, 41, 208, 239, 246, 23, 268, 17, 96, 253, 248, 177, 244, 15, 280, 60, 59, 257, 199, 123], k=13

Answer: 244


Question: [30, 120, 192, 244, 272, 199, 276, 68, 259, 88, 141, 84, 99, 256, 58, 298, 254, 116, 49, 296], k=20

Answer:
298