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:
[295, 158, 276, 100, 174, 297, 213, 26, 20, 62, 207, 224, 203, 245, 274, 287, 167, 265, 241, 84], k=9
answer:
203


question:
[90, 110, 222, 54, 223, 287, 43, 153, 17, 218, 87, 130, 244, 297, 159, 267, 272, 55, 248, 86], k=8
answer:
110


question:
[292, 116, 83, 47, 68, 195, 133, 182, 231, 154, 128, 184, 263, 284, 22, 66, 127, 72, 228, 98], k=17
answer:

231