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:
[224, 250, 168, 104, 33, 115, 240, 283, 134, 79, 205, 178, 44, 28, 207, 147, 266, 232, 284, 196], k=19
answer:
283

question:
[87, 249, 118, 103, 114, 204, 124, 12, 292, 17, 197, 239, 189, 219, 93, 205, 149, 260, 41, 272], k=20
answer:
292

question:
[87, 249, 118, 103, 114, 204, 124, 12, 292, 17, 197, 239, 189, 219, 93, 205, 149, 260, 41, 272], k=20
answer:
292