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:
[102, 43, 136, 220, 223, 84, 26, 32, 126, 133, 183, 116, 15, 56, 254, 18, 135, 68, 47, 243], k=8
answer:
68


question:
[137, 90, 208, 53, 235, 288, 134, 195, 234, 31, 215, 258, 192, 296, 20, 135, 106, 166, 243, 253], k=3
answer:
53


question:
[261, 188, 118, 52, 265, 22, 14, 54, 34, 33, 180, 60, 203, 167, 249, 204, 121, 74, 84, 253], k=5
answer:

52