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:
[169, 122, 46, 138, 119, 49, 212, 26, 154, 200, 38, 100, 31, 125, 50, 65, 94, 175, 59, 20], k=7
answer:
50


question:
[278, 263, 14, 101, 25, 97, 46, 288, 94, 13, 111, 144, 89, 159, 233, 32, 69, 216, 24, 65], k=13
answer:
111


question:
[259, 165, 88, 210, 274, 114, 244, 263, 162, 54, 179, 18, 148, 58, 94, 234, 68, 108, 95, 209], k=8
answer:

108


