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: [59, 163, 61, 189, 171, 274, 121, 266, 263, 29, 159, 35, 129, 279, 40, 287, 191, 54, 252, 224], k=12

SOLUTION: 189

PROBLEM: [132, 118, 107, 69, 262, 17, 92, 63, 232, 178, 298, 224, 82, 287, 144, 268, 73, 71, 48, 94], k=12

SOLUTION: 132

PROBLEM: [294, 134, 282, 166, 242, 167, 14, 184, 231, 187, 227, 11, 27, 50, 142, 79, 280, 76, 70, 218], k=7

SOLUTION:
79