Teacher: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.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: [232, 177, 41, 14, 62, 42, 104, 91, 136, 95, 210, 71, 80, 138, 287, 285, 298, 28, 220, 156], k=12
Student:
138