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: [27, 70, 212, 164, 256, 204, 25, 51, 31, 139, 22, 102, 160, 106, 15, 74, 177, 126, 223, 290], k=9

SOLUTION: 102

PROBLEM: [99, 295, 16, 207, 25, 22, 262, 223, 54, 270, 85, 27, 112, 265, 109, 163, 210, 195, 20, 161], k=4

SOLUTION: 25

PROBLEM: [173, 71, 170, 278, 201, 293, 256, 208, 222, 192, 126, 277, 258, 70, 60, 284, 109, 156, 102, 219], k=13

SOLUTION:
219