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: [63, 25, 275, 134, 31, 36, 142, 91, 233, 10, 125, 151, 80, 167, 212, 287, 262, 94, 225, 227], k=11

A: 142
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Q: [182, 287, 153, 29, 292, 220, 52, 104, 299, 236, 113, 10, 117, 125, 95, 44, 180, 42, 173, 215], k=2

A: 29
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Q: [242, 172, 34, 225, 45, 63, 261, 79, 207, 174, 192, 106, 108, 14, 297, 88, 180, 43, 241, 58], k=3

A:
43
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