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: [15, 122, 80, 104, 234, 167, 264, 168, 102, 94, 209, 73, 52, 134, 64, 178, 175, 57, 74, 109], k=6

Answer: 74

Question: [32, 186, 44, 118, 268, 185, 242, 159, 40, 132, 75, 19, 71, 180, 239, 276, 184, 187, 124, 20], k=7

Answer: 75

Question: [13, 163, 14, 96, 93, 58, 193, 71, 242, 264, 297, 237, 294, 299, 272, 118, 245, 131, 30, 172], k=20

Answer:
299