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:
[149, 100, 190, 102, 298, 30, 150, 221, 209, 51, 44, 117, 72, 159, 181, 81, 125, 31, 188, 58], k=9
answer:
102


question:
[284, 89, 95, 83, 153, 140, 26, 16, 101, 86, 132, 278, 274, 269, 215, 162, 165, 168, 27, 192], k=5
answer:
86


question:
[115, 53, 104, 256, 242, 101, 82, 108, 88, 47, 212, 222, 298, 102, 35, 119, 269, 217, 42, 236], k=6
answer:

88