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: [147, 31, 154, 196, 96, 14, 288, 116, 217, 17, 141, 143, 68, 94, 212, 184, 223, 42, 214, 63], k=8

Answer: 96


Question: [200, 80, 13, 113, 23, 189, 255, 148, 239, 187, 233, 163, 88, 83, 164, 194, 252, 157, 291, 178], k=5

Answer: 88


Question: [71, 183, 25, 244, 297, 108, 120, 104, 20, 217, 221, 100, 38, 205, 234, 144, 87, 218, 82, 75], k=3

Answer:
38


