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]: [200, 80, 13, 113, 23, 189, 255, 148, 239, 187, 233, 163, 88, 83, 164, 194, 252, 157, 291, 178], k=5
[A]: 88


[Q]: [191, 130, 38, 264, 297, 143, 84, 23, 26, 228, 188, 253, 258, 224, 142, 267, 251, 182, 295, 270], k=5
[A]: 130


[Q]: [41, 298, 78, 45, 265, 123, 287, 16, 198, 266, 38, 69, 18, 165, 271, 14, 82, 75, 252, 80], k=8
[A]:
75