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: [182, 287, 153, 29, 292, 220, 52, 104, 299, 236, 113, 10, 117, 125, 95, 44, 180, 42, 173, 215], k=2

Answer: 29


Question: [295, 158, 276, 100, 174, 297, 213, 26, 20, 62, 207, 224, 203, 245, 274, 287, 167, 265, 241, 84], k=9

Answer: 203


Question: [281, 142, 133, 266, 79, 192, 140, 96, 48, 56, 268, 247, 22, 143, 195, 222, 36, 295, 93, 13], k=4

Answer:
48


