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:
[241, 119, 166, 55, 225, 112, 67, 32, 47, 267, 129, 294, 69, 229, 174, 157, 286, 245, 101, 115], k=17
answer:
245


question:
[263, 16, 235, 19, 299, 195, 24, 191, 70, 93, 63, 11, 272, 276, 197, 232, 98, 291, 186, 265], k=5
answer:
63


question:
[47, 110, 226, 164, 95, 31, 36, 115, 79, 90, 64, 205, 124, 147, 250, 225, 35, 179, 235, 196], k=3
answer:

36