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: [126, 265, 104, 289, 284, 219, 273, 203, 48, 173, 46, 70, 110, 42, 148, 209, 131, 11, 71, 105], k=10

A: 126
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Q: [278, 41, 208, 239, 246, 23, 268, 17, 96, 253, 248, 177, 244, 15, 280, 60, 59, 257, 199, 123], k=13

A: 244
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Q: [182, 93, 282, 251, 185, 285, 123, 216, 136, 165, 161, 75, 247, 246, 162, 141, 124, 13, 188, 191], k=13

A:
188
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