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:
[118, 100, 81, 27, 285, 272, 289, 217, 162, 196, 277, 171, 84, 113, 183, 298, 80, 28, 139, 77], k=9
answer:
118


question:
[73, 175, 152, 44, 121, 161, 196, 159, 119, 30, 145, 254, 252, 201, 126, 224, 278, 80, 102, 212], k=10
answer:
152


question:
[21, 282, 277, 191, 210, 10, 101, 102, 34, 43, 134, 79, 280, 30, 243, 66, 111, 67, 233, 25], k=19
answer:

280