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.

Input: Consider Input: [72, 285, 153, 18, 207, 96, 39, 37, 113, 237, 156, 56, 270, 134, 279, 32, 181, 211, 55, 17], k=12

Output: 153


Input: Consider Input: [135, 180, 154, 219, 60, 127, 79, 152, 201, 65, 67, 122, 55, 68, 32, 287, 231, 38, 45, 280], k=20

Output: 287


Input: Consider Input: [182, 93, 282, 251, 185, 285, 123, 216, 136, 165, 161, 75, 247, 246, 162, 141, 124, 13, 188, 191], k=13


Output: 188