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: [124, 118, 236, 227, 74, 148, 136, 33, 121, 253, 282, 246, 229, 186, 181, 235, 146, 67, 298, 244], k=4

A: 118
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Q: [272, 96, 64, 119, 236, 228, 129, 252, 297, 201, 144, 29, 20, 200, 162, 79, 285, 254, 189, 196], k=16

A: 252
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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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