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:
[259, 161, 27, 153, 19, 36, 233, 25, 292, 137, 56, 65, 193, 171, 282, 114, 10, 108, 43, 128], k=17
answer:
233


question:
[70, 294, 268, 166, 52, 108, 277, 232, 141, 230, 146, 149, 195, 107, 104, 263, 40, 244, 116, 275], k=11
answer:
166


question:
[79, 95, 30, 89, 165, 39, 265, 115, 202, 19, 170, 76, 164, 46, 92, 235, 213, 246, 234, 219], k=19
answer:

246


