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: [11, 278, 43, 255, 83, 18, 268, 283, 288, 222, 31, 294, 17, 209, 71, 75, 57, 24, 91, 149], k=2

Answer: 17

Question: [144, 18, 223, 63, 151, 196, 244, 85, 107, 170, 239, 126, 292, 159, 122, 97, 129, 229, 207, 202], k=1

Answer: 18

Question: [275, 200, 282, 39, 14, 78, 85, 228, 225, 136, 34, 52, 89, 135, 17, 41, 218, 37, 196, 119], k=17

Answer:
225