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:
[284, 89, 95, 83, 153, 140, 26, 16, 101, 86, 132, 278, 274, 269, 215, 162, 165, 168, 27, 192], k=5
answer:
86


question:
[259, 161, 27, 153, 19, 36, 233, 25, 292, 137, 56, 65, 193, 171, 282, 114, 10, 108, 43, 128], k=17
answer:
233


question:
[242, 54, 259, 204, 67, 182, 168, 17, 287, 143, 272, 78, 48, 91, 224, 84, 201, 126, 18, 199], k=13
answer:

199