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:
[74, 20, 106, 219, 190, 33, 14, 36, 159, 27, 224, 283, 13, 129, 40, 230, 220, 43, 63, 205], k=7
answer:
40

question:
[207, 198, 256, 176, 228, 201, 72, 241, 284, 203, 28, 230, 223, 80, 249, 266, 111, 98, 104, 170], k=8
answer:
176

question:
[46, 190, 169, 73, 62, 197, 289, 45, 193, 203, 191, 233, 128, 281, 14, 224, 185, 86, 94, 108], k=8
answer:
108