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: [111, 48, 244, 114, 218, 69, 112, 253, 87, 27, 61, 141, 58, 30, 161, 54, 179, 227, 25, 202], k=17

Answer: 218


Question: [155, 72, 71, 257, 17, 132, 266, 299, 290, 125, 38, 86, 37, 202, 185, 59, 70, 222, 145, 175], k=8

Answer: 86


Question: [95, 255, 154, 129, 160, 92, 134, 106, 142, 35, 284, 55, 176, 47, 200, 115, 266, 151, 166, 167], k=16

Answer:
176


