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: [272, 96, 64, 119, 236, 228, 129, 252, 297, 201, 144, 29, 20, 200, 162, 79, 285, 254, 189, 196], k=16

SOLUTION: 252

PROBLEM: [281, 142, 133, 266, 79, 192, 140, 96, 48, 56, 268, 247, 22, 143, 195, 222, 36, 295, 93, 13], k=4

SOLUTION: 48

PROBLEM: [137, 90, 208, 53, 235, 288, 134, 195, 234, 31, 215, 258, 192, 296, 20, 135, 106, 166, 243, 253], k=3

SOLUTION:
53