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:
[262, 175, 116, 233, 122, 247, 267, 286, 13, 74, 28, 145, 126, 205, 165, 259, 238, 76, 81, 177], k=9
answer:
145


question:
[27, 70, 212, 164, 256, 204, 25, 51, 31, 139, 22, 102, 160, 106, 15, 74, 177, 126, 223, 290], k=9
answer:
102


question:
[178, 170, 196, 57, 265, 258, 84, 209, 259, 87, 130, 134, 49, 106, 18, 177, 207, 199, 131, 257], k=12
answer:

178