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: [137, 90, 208, 53, 235, 288, 134, 195, 234, 31, 215, 258, 192, 296, 20, 135, 106, 166, 243, 253], k=3

Answer: 53


Question: [257, 92, 132, 282, 14, 101, 134, 96, 28, 228, 222, 109, 47, 114, 58, 205, 279, 62, 33, 183], k=16

Answer: 222


Question: [102, 43, 136, 220, 223, 84, 26, 32, 126, 133, 183, 116, 15, 56, 254, 18, 135, 68, 47, 243], k=8

Answer:
68