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: [102, 43, 136, 220, 223, 84, 26, 32, 126, 133, 183, 116, 15, 56, 254, 18, 135, 68, 47, 243], k=8

SOLUTION: 68

PROBLEM: [144, 18, 223, 63, 151, 196, 244, 85, 107, 170, 239, 126, 292, 159, 122, 97, 129, 229, 207, 202], k=1

SOLUTION: 18

PROBLEM: [45, 120, 23, 285, 143, 53, 174, 299, 247, 250, 34, 12, 202, 117, 245, 25, 89, 203, 275, 239], k=12

SOLUTION:
202