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:
[160, 130, 171, 108, 35, 252, 210, 140, 261, 65, 203, 280, 95, 61, 165, 281, 32, 275, 176, 269], k=11
answer:
171


question:
[191, 130, 38, 264, 297, 143, 84, 23, 26, 228, 188, 253, 258, 224, 142, 267, 251, 182, 295, 270], k=5
answer:
130


question:
[157, 17, 177, 115, 219, 106, 124, 167, 210, 193, 171, 148, 242, 183, 236, 55, 11, 127, 165, 212], k=11
answer:

167