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: [118, 135, 157, 125, 187, 92, 41, 91, 72, 69, 167, 38, 154, 85, 26, 213, 287, 271, 212, 138], k=3

A: 41
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Q: [285, 217, 45, 68, 242, 281, 185, 60, 86, 170, 91, 131, 201, 263, 138, 140, 220, 299, 133, 35], k=11

A: 170
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Q: [86, 198, 236, 176, 174, 224, 164, 37, 22, 88, 61, 191, 235, 181, 268, 275, 226, 78, 68, 270], k=11

A:
181
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