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: [200, 171, 235, 83, 84, 109, 278, 80, 181, 169, 59, 85, 277, 204, 242, 123, 232, 11, 201, 175], k=17

A: 235
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Q: [78, 222, 105, 299, 293, 272, 81, 246, 229, 110, 91, 287, 74, 71, 22, 197, 114, 42, 186, 190], k=1

A: 22
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Q: [176, 263, 284, 189, 131, 102, 40, 179, 289, 150, 209, 81, 114, 51, 162, 48, 66, 195, 49, 20], k=10

A:
131
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