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:
[63, 25, 275, 134, 31, 36, 142, 91, 233, 10, 125, 151, 80, 167, 212, 287, 262, 94, 225, 227], k=11
answer:
142


question:
[31, 78, 202, 71, 131, 121, 106, 123, 133, 221, 282, 141, 150, 255, 273, 237, 86, 38, 117, 171], k=18
answer:
255


question:
[267, 82, 49, 192, 113, 139, 67, 232, 48, 284, 247, 114, 178, 102, 276, 285, 183, 93, 136, 272], k=10
answer:

139


