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:
[98, 104, 201, 129, 60, 241, 81, 101, 256, 13, 217, 268, 127, 108, 184, 11, 230, 24, 79, 130], k=19
answer:
256

question:
[209, 36, 151, 99, 21, 91, 38, 230, 289, 204, 33, 254, 278, 115, 137, 24, 76, 174, 118, 126], k=9
answer:
115

question:
[263, 16, 235, 19, 299, 195, 24, 191, 70, 93, 63, 11, 272, 276, 197, 232, 98, 291, 186, 265], k=5
answer:
63