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]: [101, 139, 185, 11, 275, 198, 126, 215, 38, 161, 13, 176, 242, 189, 92, 222, 79, 25, 109, 216], k=20
[EX A]: 275

[EX Q]: [170, 146, 278, 212, 79, 175, 256, 230, 120, 282, 126, 97, 190, 33, 196, 174, 39, 188, 47, 243], k=4
[EX A]: 79

[EX Q]: [296, 139, 50, 190, 196, 299, 77, 247, 204, 145, 227, 90, 246, 259, 23, 193, 233, 75, 276, 10], k=20
[EX A]:
299