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: [73, 55, 234, 249, 278, 48, 169, 163, 119, 225, 88, 286, 47, 285, 37, 248, 226, 23, 127, 187], k=10

A: 163
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Q: [21, 282, 277, 191, 210, 10, 101, 102, 34, 43, 134, 79, 280, 30, 243, 66, 111, 67, 233, 25], k=19

A: 280
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Q: [70, 294, 268, 166, 52, 108, 277, 232, 141, 230, 146, 149, 195, 107, 104, 263, 40, 244, 116, 275], k=11

A:
166
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