TASK DEFINITION: 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.
PROBLEM: [69, 182, 35, 280, 130, 107, 92, 206, 24, 279, 188, 212, 278, 25, 127, 113, 105, 50, 169, 192], k=20

SOLUTION: 280

PROBLEM: [160, 171, 147, 167, 154, 223, 297, 69, 168, 152, 96, 224, 24, 263, 283, 31, 162, 87, 111, 12], k=20

SOLUTION: 297

PROBLEM: [262, 92, 233, 54, 34, 46, 160, 145, 294, 26, 71, 70, 158, 169, 64, 299, 49, 12, 105, 37], k=15

SOLUTION:
160