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: [261, 137, 226, 174, 152, 47, 248, 21, 250, 249, 211, 130, 135, 220, 110, 143, 259, 224, 106, 94], k=12

Answer: 211

Question: [165, 225, 23, 126, 79, 185, 30, 208, 275, 131, 296, 238, 171, 229, 174, 145, 24, 187, 159, 218], k=19

Answer: 275

Question: [115, 53, 104, 256, 242, 101, 82, 108, 88, 47, 212, 222, 298, 102, 35, 119, 269, 217, 42, 236], k=6

Answer:
88