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 Q]: [98, 237, 179, 245, 268, 231, 97, 238, 174, 137, 153, 63, 168, 289, 50, 62, 57, 159, 81, 255], k=18
[EX A]: 255

[EX Q]: [182, 287, 153, 29, 292, 220, 52, 104, 299, 236, 113, 10, 117, 125, 95, 44, 180, 42, 173, 215], k=2
[EX A]: 29

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