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:
[117, 58, 36, 193, 159, 39, 171, 47, 192, 78, 156, 140, 211, 10, 23, 111, 260, 32, 209, 138], k=9
answer:
111


question:
[175, 32, 35, 108, 142, 10, 81, 47, 171, 89, 149, 98, 110, 211, 14, 113, 15, 293, 102, 84], k=16
answer:
149


question:
[234, 140, 29, 61, 116, 256, 183, 137, 255, 265, 245, 122, 200, 63, 50, 155, 28, 154, 39, 271], k=17
answer:

255


