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


question:
[88, 138, 230, 71, 119, 274, 257, 233, 10, 293, 49, 245, 35, 205, 36, 161, 63, 147, 87, 114], k=8
answer:
88


question:
[230, 290, 126, 285, 289, 58, 263, 201, 163, 157, 189, 45, 135, 137, 185, 210, 222, 128, 260, 261], k=1
answer:

45