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:
[180, 257, 70, 83, 264, 61, 245, 125, 50, 285, 121, 163, 79, 290, 54, 293, 170, 174, 64, 244], k=20
answer:
293

question:
[99, 239, 40, 23, 276, 132, 133, 119, 294, 271, 72, 49, 186, 282, 244, 236, 121, 167, 268, 170], k=18
answer:
276

question:
[176, 263, 284, 189, 131, 102, 40, 179, 289, 150, 209, 81, 114, 51, 162, 48, 66, 195, 49, 20], k=10
answer:
131