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:
[228, 44, 141, 240, 283, 75, 297, 245, 210, 49, 251, 69, 145, 274, 103, 264, 80, 36, 57, 208], k=10

Ex Output:
145


Ex Input:
[88, 138, 230, 71, 119, 274, 257, 233, 10, 293, 49, 245, 35, 205, 36, 161, 63, 147, 87, 114], k=8

Ex Output:
88


Ex Input:
[99, 239, 40, 23, 276, 132, 133, 119, 294, 271, 72, 49, 186, 282, 244, 236, 121, 167, 268, 170], k=18

Ex Output:

276