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:
[113, 128, 35, 235, 243, 222, 247, 220, 150, 126, 105, 238, 293, 240, 81, 261, 191, 10, 148, 144], k=17
answer:
243

question:
[262, 92, 233, 54, 34, 46, 160, 145, 294, 26, 71, 70, 158, 169, 64, 299, 49, 12, 105, 37], k=15
answer:
160

question:
[158, 275, 17, 60, 47, 109, 91, 170, 99, 147, 83, 245, 216, 112, 176, 151, 279, 78, 260, 149], k=20
answer:
279