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: [230, 290, 126, 285, 289, 58, 263, 201, 163, 157, 189, 45, 135, 137, 185, 210, 222, 128, 260, 261], k=1
Student:
45