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Find the Kth Smallest Element in an Array
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Find the Kth Smallest Element in an Array

via Dev.to PythonTharunya K R2h ago

Problem Given an integer array arr[] and an integer k, find the kth smallest element. The kth smallest element is determined based on the sorted order. Example 1 Input: arr = [10, 5, 4, 3, 48, 6, 2, 33, 53, 10], k = 4 Output: 5 Example 2 Input: arr = [7, 10, 4, 3, 20, 15], k = 3 Output: 7 Approach Sort the array in ascending order. Return the element at index k-1. Python Code class Solution: def kthSmallest(self, arr, k): arr.sort() return arr[k - 1] Output: Kth smallest element: 5

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