TASK DEFINITION: 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.
PROBLEM: [139, 14, 275, 103, 213, 287, 173, 181, 127, 125, 91, 257, 267, 209, 54, 297, 128, 167, 138, 155], k=1

SOLUTION: 14

PROBLEM: [224, 250, 168, 104, 33, 115, 240, 283, 134, 79, 205, 178, 44, 28, 207, 147, 266, 232, 284, 196], k=19

SOLUTION: 283

PROBLEM: [266, 294, 211, 260, 50, 268, 74, 228, 42, 13, 105, 80, 143, 183, 277, 296, 134, 26, 36, 60], k=4

SOLUTION:
42