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:
[113, 128, 35, 235, 243, 222, 247, 220, 150, 126, 105, 238, 293, 240, 81, 261, 191, 10, 148, 144], k=17

Ex Output:
243


Ex Input:
[175, 32, 35, 108, 142, 10, 81, 47, 171, 89, 149, 98, 110, 211, 14, 113, 15, 293, 102, 84], k=16

Ex Output:
149


Ex Input:
[175, 32, 35, 108, 142, 10, 81, 47, 171, 89, 149, 98, 110, 211, 14, 113, 15, 293, 102, 84], k=16

Ex Output:

149