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: [70, 294, 268, 166, 52, 108, 277, 232, 141, 230, 146, 149, 195, 107, 104, 263, 40, 244, 116, 275], k=11

SOLUTION: 166

PROBLEM: [43, 55, 172, 198, 81, 270, 159, 285, 28, 15, 130, 245, 37, 134, 174, 39, 146, 94, 158, 82], k=2

SOLUTION: 28

PROBLEM: [79, 95, 30, 89, 165, 39, 265, 115, 202, 19, 170, 76, 164, 46, 92, 235, 213, 246, 234, 219], k=19

SOLUTION:
246