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.

Input: Consider Input: [91, 144, 89, 139, 171, 248, 268, 10, 70, 140, 112, 145, 182, 206, 37, 186, 263, 16, 198, 261], k=11

Output: 145


Input: Consider Input: [279, 243, 65, 227, 115, 147, 176, 235, 99, 61, 63, 299, 219, 139, 113, 92, 280, 220, 90, 249], k=9

Output: 139


Input: Consider Input: [191, 130, 38, 264, 297, 143, 84, 23, 26, 228, 188, 253, 258, 224, 142, 267, 251, 182, 295, 270], k=5


Output: 130