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:
[117, 89, 182, 76, 216, 86, 31, 283, 142, 237, 178, 35, 200, 232, 23, 296, 211, 273, 192, 10], k=12
answer:
192


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:
[212, 21, 189, 206, 221, 284, 278, 196, 104, 122, 30, 48, 237, 291, 208, 293, 145, 137, 259, 135], k=2
answer:

30