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:
[59, 163, 61, 189, 171, 274, 121, 266, 263, 29, 159, 35, 129, 279, 40, 287, 191, 54, 252, 224], k=12
answer:
189


question:
[81, 235, 25, 282, 104, 10, 130, 20, 56, 21, 232, 265, 274, 198, 131, 267, 97, 121, 167, 261], k=16
answer:
261


question:
[217, 14, 159, 297, 144, 218, 15, 173, 258, 143, 154, 90, 132, 294, 284, 146, 114, 68, 237, 118], k=3
answer:

68