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: [284, 41, 223, 131, 68, 18, 42, 290, 86, 248, 113, 299, 24, 285, 67, 48, 218, 79, 296, 158], k=7

SOLUTION: 68

PROBLEM: [47, 110, 226, 164, 95, 31, 36, 115, 79, 90, 64, 205, 124, 147, 250, 225, 35, 179, 235, 196], k=3

SOLUTION: 36

PROBLEM: [78, 222, 105, 299, 293, 272, 81, 246, 229, 110, 91, 287, 74, 71, 22, 197, 114, 42, 186, 190], k=1

SOLUTION:
22