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:
[246, 91, 111, 87, 103, 49, 213, 74, 57, 63, 112, 279, 109, 158, 230, 219, 132, 296, 107, 178], k=18
answer:
246


question:
[109, 49, 80, 107, 95, 258, 273, 265, 120, 233, 92, 199, 173, 230, 77, 214, 292, 155, 185, 232], k=2
answer:
77


question:
[74, 20, 106, 219, 190, 33, 14, 36, 159, 27, 224, 283, 13, 129, 40, 230, 220, 43, 63, 205], k=7
answer:

40