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:
[262, 92, 233, 54, 34, 46, 160, 145, 294, 26, 71, 70, 158, 169, 64, 299, 49, 12, 105, 37], k=15
answer:
160


question:
[191, 130, 38, 264, 297, 143, 84, 23, 26, 228, 188, 253, 258, 224, 142, 267, 251, 182, 295, 270], k=5
answer:
130


question:
[30, 120, 192, 244, 272, 199, 276, 68, 259, 88, 141, 84, 99, 256, 58, 298, 254, 116, 49, 296], k=20
answer:

298


