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 Input:
[14, 162, 33, 137, 151, 210, 248, 269, 24, 252, 114, 164, 104, 147, 259, 190, 197, 180, 289, 37], k=5

Ex Output:
104


Ex Input:
[69, 182, 35, 280, 130, 107, 92, 206, 24, 279, 188, 212, 278, 25, 127, 113, 105, 50, 169, 192], k=20

Ex Output:
280


Ex Input:
[109, 49, 80, 107, 95, 258, 273, 265, 120, 233, 92, 199, 173, 230, 77, 214, 292, 155, 185, 232], k=2

Ex Output:

77