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: [81, 235, 25, 282, 104, 10, 130, 20, 56, 21, 232, 265, 274, 198, 131, 267, 97, 121, 167, 261], k=16

Answer: 261


Question: [197, 137, 127, 76, 283, 205, 136, 106, 207, 194, 168, 251, 57, 164, 75, 151, 176, 212, 299, 297], k=13

Answer: 197


Question: [205, 55, 245, 283, 196, 16, 215, 287, 281, 249, 186, 194, 141, 254, 23, 10, 268, 26, 62, 75], k=2

Answer:
16