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: [114, 219, 248, 153, 226, 154, 190, 54, 93, 55, 284, 227, 159, 91, 136, 145, 287, 30, 286, 87], k=7

Answer: 114

Question: [194, 272, 269, 186, 259, 148, 150, 53, 222, 168, 197, 133, 31, 12, 29, 205, 67, 123, 81, 89], k=7

Answer: 89

Question: [27, 70, 212, 164, 256, 204, 25, 51, 31, 139, 22, 102, 160, 106, 15, 74, 177, 126, 223, 290], k=9

Answer:
102