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:
[43, 55, 172, 198, 81, 270, 159, 285, 28, 15, 130, 245, 37, 134, 174, 39, 146, 94, 158, 82], k=2
answer:
28


question:
[101, 139, 185, 11, 275, 198, 126, 215, 38, 161, 13, 176, 242, 189, 92, 222, 79, 25, 109, 216], k=20
answer:
275


question:
[21, 282, 277, 191, 210, 10, 101, 102, 34, 43, 134, 79, 280, 30, 243, 66, 111, 67, 233, 25], k=19
answer:

280


