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: [32, 186, 44, 118, 268, 185, 242, 159, 40, 132, 75, 19, 71, 180, 239, 276, 184, 187, 124, 20], k=7

Answer: 75


Question: [99, 239, 40, 23, 276, 132, 133, 119, 294, 271, 72, 49, 186, 282, 244, 236, 121, 167, 268, 170], k=18

Answer: 276


Question: [202, 16, 28, 103, 294, 94, 32, 152, 284, 131, 177, 269, 72, 49, 64, 183, 98, 89, 217, 286], k=11

Answer:
131


