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]: [116, 77, 23, 192, 244, 55, 15, 93, 272, 76, 252, 41, 34, 61, 139, 28, 43, 157, 50, 231], k=12
[EX A]: 93

[EX Q]: [209, 36, 151, 99, 21, 91, 38, 230, 289, 204, 33, 254, 278, 115, 137, 24, 76, 174, 118, 126], k=9
[EX A]: 115

[EX Q]: [246, 91, 111, 87, 103, 49, 213, 74, 57, 63, 112, 279, 109, 158, 230, 219, 132, 296, 107, 178], k=18
[EX A]:
246