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: [102, 43, 136, 220, 223, 84, 26, 32, 126, 133, 183, 116, 15, 56, 254, 18, 135, 68, 47, 243], k=8

Answer: 68

Question: [197, 137, 127, 76, 283, 205, 136, 106, 207, 194, 168, 251, 57, 164, 75, 151, 176, 212, 299, 297], k=13

Answer: 197

Question: [94, 116, 256, 81, 106, 150, 29, 112, 198, 151, 85, 96, 138, 65, 219, 210, 266, 97, 134, 64], k=12

Answer:
134