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: [14, 162, 33, 137, 151, 210, 248, 269, 24, 252, 114, 164, 104, 147, 259, 190, 197, 180, 289, 37], k=5

A: 104
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Q: [99, 213, 61, 207, 279, 41, 21, 34, 151, 165, 139, 102, 277, 97, 251, 79, 186, 290, 276, 229], k=4

A: 61
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Q: [95, 246, 215, 50, 209, 25, 114, 252, 164, 171, 33, 233, 59, 35, 99, 87, 285, 36, 226, 225], k=16

A:
226
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