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:
[200, 80, 13, 113, 23, 189, 255, 148, 239, 187, 233, 163, 88, 83, 164, 194, 252, 157, 291, 178], k=5
answer:
88


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


question:
[67, 157, 179, 171, 221, 292, 275, 125, 54, 113, 209, 232, 16, 15, 81, 178, 174, 168, 69, 90], k=12
answer:

171