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.

Ex Input:
[34, 225, 16, 48, 288, 69, 123, 61, 55, 221, 109, 165, 73, 32, 100, 44, 257, 223, 36, 169], k=7

Ex Output:
55


Ex Input:
[74, 20, 106, 219, 190, 33, 14, 36, 159, 27, 224, 283, 13, 129, 40, 230, 220, 43, 63, 205], k=7

Ex Output:
40


Ex Input:
[275, 114, 223, 89, 160, 20, 129, 51, 43, 64, 169, 83, 184, 270, 240, 42, 183, 227, 113, 232], k=8

Ex Output:

113