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:
[296, 36, 295, 271, 34, 28, 177, 155, 26, 266, 24, 278, 146, 292, 217, 108, 15, 167, 33, 80], k=11
answer:
155


question:
[193, 150, 74, 50, 282, 231, 174, 238, 176, 67, 130, 113, 239, 165, 173, 162, 216, 136, 59, 177], k=12
answer:
174


question:
[101, 60, 42, 104, 107, 109, 273, 288, 64, 23, 144, 18, 298, 247, 158, 53, 145, 46, 155, 80], k=5
answer:

53