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, 55, 234, 249, 278, 48, 169, 163, 119, 225, 88, 286, 47, 285, 37, 248, 226, 23, 127, 187], k=10

SOLUTION: 163

PROBLEM: [104, 39, 124, 288, 19, 77, 140, 177, 34, 57, 215, 46, 47, 285, 243, 105, 201, 293, 12, 86], k=5

SOLUTION: 46

PROBLEM: [200, 171, 235, 83, 84, 109, 278, 80, 181, 169, 59, 85, 277, 204, 242, 123, 232, 11, 201, 175], k=17

SOLUTION:
235