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:
[85, 214, 295, 30, 46, 220, 137, 193, 126, 68, 66, 110, 24, 209, 142, 125, 61, 273, 144, 246], k=16
answer:
214


question:
[144, 283, 257, 94, 54, 261, 75, 182, 199, 111, 106, 103, 251, 252, 222, 109, 203, 280, 45, 81], k=2
answer:
54


question:
[224, 250, 168, 104, 33, 115, 240, 283, 134, 79, 205, 178, 44, 28, 207, 147, 266, 232, 284, 196], k=19
answer:

283