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

[EX Q]: [81, 235, 25, 282, 104, 10, 130, 20, 56, 21, 232, 265, 274, 198, 131, 267, 97, 121, 167, 261], k=16
[EX A]: 261

[EX Q]: [289, 192, 281, 277, 296, 105, 64, 168, 80, 115, 163, 205, 255, 269, 89, 72, 106, 132, 187, 20], k=12
[EX A]:
187