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: [132, 118, 107, 69, 262, 17, 92, 63, 232, 178, 298, 224, 82, 287, 144, 268, 73, 71, 48, 94], k=12

Answer: 132

Question: [90, 107, 78, 117, 51, 37, 210, 186, 155, 81, 245, 214, 203, 190, 67, 149, 99, 116, 21, 89], k=18

Answer: 210

Question: [199, 289, 81, 195, 20, 292, 45, 275, 163, 180, 108, 67, 52, 57, 13, 118, 247, 26, 150, 161], k=11

Answer:
150