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.

[228, 44, 141, 240, 283, 75, 297, 245, 210, 49, 251, 69, 145, 274, 103, 264, 80, 36, 57, 208], k=10
145

[73, 55, 234, 249, 278, 48, 169, 163, 119, 225, 88, 286, 47, 285, 37, 248, 226, 23, 127, 187], k=10
163

[57, 142, 270, 170, 25, 43, 266, 222, 101, 103, 98, 219, 215, 39, 286, 194, 198, 257, 204, 60], k=5

60