Teacher: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.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: [136, 140, 51, 218, 101, 66, 179, 280, 96, 182, 240, 229, 20, 212, 16, 223, 255, 121, 15, 221], k=7
Student:
101