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: [230, 290, 126, 285, 289, 58, 263, 201, 163, 157, 189, 45, 135, 137, 185, 210, 222, 128, 260, 261], k=1

SOLUTION: 45

PROBLEM: [46, 190, 169, 73, 62, 197, 289, 45, 193, 203, 191, 233, 128, 281, 14, 224, 185, 86, 94, 108], k=8

SOLUTION: 108

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

SOLUTION:
149