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:
[99, 213, 61, 207, 279, 41, 21, 34, 151, 165, 139, 102, 277, 97, 251, 79, 186, 290, 276, 229], k=4
answer:
61


question:
[273, 12, 97, 267, 96, 60, 289, 95, 248, 120, 255, 275, 257, 122, 78, 191, 179, 167, 116, 79], k=16
answer:
257


question:
[182, 287, 153, 29, 292, 220, 52, 104, 299, 236, 113, 10, 117, 125, 95, 44, 180, 42, 173, 215], k=2
answer:

29