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: [129, 75, 285, 265, 190, 68, 56, 171, 228, 174, 200, 208, 134, 84, 210, 48, 272, 47, 199, 116], k=15

A: 208
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Q: [200, 171, 235, 83, 84, 109, 278, 80, 181, 169, 59, 85, 277, 204, 242, 123, 232, 11, 201, 175], k=17

A: 235
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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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