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.

[Q]: [178, 170, 196, 57, 265, 258, 84, 209, 259, 87, 130, 134, 49, 106, 18, 177, 207, 199, 131, 257], k=12
[A]: 178


[Q]: [126, 265, 104, 289, 284, 219, 273, 203, 48, 173, 46, 70, 110, 42, 148, 209, 131, 11, 71, 105], k=10
[A]: 126


[Q]: [111, 237, 259, 215, 30, 293, 167, 90, 276, 208, 35, 257, 181, 280, 234, 255, 193, 165, 107, 66], k=14
[A]:
237