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: [91, 144, 89, 139, 171, 248, 268, 10, 70, 140, 112, 145, 182, 206, 37, 186, 263, 16, 198, 261], k=11
Student:
145