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: [59, 163, 61, 189, 171, 274, 121, 266, 263, 29, 159, 35, 129, 279, 40, 287, 191, 54, 252, 224], k=12
Student:
189