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.

Q: [70, 184, 82, 86, 192, 24, 208, 79, 295, 154, 94, 221, 161, 174, 21, 173, 72, 299, 250, 32], k=4

A: 70
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Q: [72, 285, 153, 18, 207, 96, 39, 37, 113, 237, 156, 56, 270, 134, 279, 32, 181, 211, 55, 17], k=12

A: 153
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Q: [34, 225, 16, 48, 288, 69, 123, 61, 55, 221, 109, 165, 73, 32, 100, 44, 257, 223, 36, 169], k=7

A:
55
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