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:
[297, 154, 166, 65, 256, 282, 150, 241, 67, 255, 79, 232, 27, 192, 81, 298, 144, 155, 252, 111], k=11
answer:
166


question:
[296, 139, 50, 190, 196, 299, 77, 247, 204, 145, 227, 90, 246, 259, 23, 193, 233, 75, 276, 10], k=20
answer:
299


question:
[202, 16, 28, 103, 294, 94, 32, 152, 284, 131, 177, 269, 72, 49, 64, 183, 98, 89, 217, 286], k=11
answer:

131