instruction:
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.
question:
[67, 157, 179, 171, 221, 292, 275, 125, 54, 113, 209, 232, 16, 15, 81, 178, 174, 168, 69, 90], k=12
answer:
171


question:
[42, 196, 182, 276, 226, 154, 296, 33, 167, 83, 36, 210, 112, 246, 149, 169, 159, 177, 84, 242], k=7
answer:
149


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

118