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: [262, 92, 233, 54, 34, 46, 160, 145, 294, 26, 71, 70, 158, 169, 64, 299, 49, 12, 105, 37], k=15

A: 160
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Q: [38, 140, 149, 176, 267, 22, 88, 193, 87, 36, 284, 214, 226, 86, 50, 188, 96, 49, 125, 167], k=1

A: 22
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Q: [53, 203, 295, 77, 250, 297, 158, 172, 73, 64, 134, 175, 140, 135, 246, 270, 222, 98, 78, 31], k=17

A:
250
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