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

A: 48
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Q: [118, 100, 81, 27, 285, 272, 289, 217, 162, 196, 277, 171, 84, 113, 183, 298, 80, 28, 139, 77], k=9

A: 118
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Q: [204, 41, 236, 97, 178, 250, 180, 257, 124, 120, 126, 265, 185, 152, 281, 233, 268, 283, 286, 71], k=17

A:
268
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