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.

[Q]: [173, 71, 170, 278, 201, 293, 256, 208, 222, 192, 126, 277, 258, 70, 60, 284, 109, 156, 102, 219], k=13
[A]: 219


[Q]: [176, 263, 284, 189, 131, 102, 40, 179, 289, 150, 209, 81, 114, 51, 162, 48, 66, 195, 49, 20], k=10
[A]: 131


[Q]: [111, 48, 244, 114, 218, 69, 112, 253, 87, 27, 61, 141, 58, 30, 161, 54, 179, 227, 25, 202], k=17
[A]:
218