TASK DEFINITION: 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.
PROBLEM: [73, 175, 152, 44, 121, 161, 196, 159, 119, 30, 145, 254, 252, 201, 126, 224, 278, 80, 102, 212], k=10

SOLUTION: 152

PROBLEM: [101, 265, 235, 38, 208, 147, 204, 135, 97, 88, 129, 20, 181, 285, 74, 130, 203, 33, 228, 65], k=16

SOLUTION: 208

PROBLEM: [25, 193, 152, 125, 30, 226, 42, 157, 53, 201, 197, 252, 204, 63, 170, 148, 65, 23, 10, 137], k=11

SOLUTION:
148