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:
[155, 72, 71, 257, 17, 132, 266, 299, 290, 125, 38, 86, 37, 202, 185, 59, 70, 222, 145, 175], k=8
answer:
86


question:
[253, 223, 232, 292, 217, 68, 55, 190, 122, 299, 176, 154, 280, 204, 50, 29, 179, 130, 10, 241], k=11
answer:
190


question:
[29, 283, 296, 133, 222, 90, 97, 208, 31, 229, 63, 228, 109, 245, 221, 225, 83, 91, 188, 61], k=20
answer:

296