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: [155, 72, 71, 257, 17, 132, 266, 299, 290, 125, 38, 86, 37, 202, 185, 59, 70, 222, 145, 175], k=8

SOLUTION: 86

PROBLEM: [266, 294, 211, 260, 50, 268, 74, 228, 42, 13, 105, 80, 143, 183, 277, 296, 134, 26, 36, 60], k=4

SOLUTION: 42

PROBLEM: [53, 203, 295, 77, 250, 297, 158, 172, 73, 64, 134, 175, 140, 135, 246, 270, 222, 98, 78, 31], k=17

SOLUTION:
250