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]: [261, 53, 110, 80, 257, 117, 112, 45, 21, 74, 68, 72, 63, 152, 141, 246, 47, 262, 189, 103], k=6
[EX A]: 68

[EX Q]: [53, 81, 225, 98, 48, 65, 28, 158, 11, 168, 220, 128, 120, 249, 127, 55, 236, 213, 116, 115], k=10
[EX A]: 116

[EX Q]: [262, 175, 116, 233, 122, 247, 267, 286, 13, 74, 28, 145, 126, 205, 165, 259, 238, 76, 81, 177], k=9
[EX A]:
145