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: [48, 51, 19, 163, 242, 98, 100, 294, 28, 14, 126, 290, 57, 181, 78, 24, 174, 32, 213, 206], k=2

A: 19
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Q: [69, 182, 35, 280, 130, 107, 92, 206, 24, 279, 188, 212, 278, 25, 127, 113, 105, 50, 169, 192], k=20

A: 280
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Q: [27, 70, 212, 164, 256, 204, 25, 51, 31, 139, 22, 102, 160, 106, 15, 74, 177, 126, 223, 290], k=9

A:
102
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