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

SOLUTION: 28

PROBLEM: [289, 192, 281, 277, 296, 105, 64, 168, 80, 115, 163, 205, 255, 269, 89, 72, 106, 132, 187, 20], k=12

SOLUTION: 187

PROBLEM: [144, 18, 223, 63, 151, 196, 244, 85, 107, 170, 239, 126, 292, 159, 122, 97, 129, 229, 207, 202], k=1

SOLUTION:
18

