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: [70, 294, 268, 166, 52, 108, 277, 232, 141, 230, 146, 149, 195, 107, 104, 263, 40, 244, 116, 275], k=11

SOLUTION: 166

PROBLEM: [90, 110, 222, 54, 223, 287, 43, 153, 17, 218, 87, 130, 244, 297, 159, 267, 272, 55, 248, 86], k=8

SOLUTION: 110

PROBLEM: [25, 193, 152, 125, 30, 226, 42, 157, 53, 201, 197, 252, 204, 63, 170, 148, 65, 23, 10, 137], k=11

SOLUTION:
148