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]: [71, 183, 25, 244, 297, 108, 120, 104, 20, 217, 221, 100, 38, 205, 234, 144, 87, 218, 82, 75], k=3
[A]: 38


[Q]: [235, 118, 154, 225, 98, 42, 134, 239, 60, 174, 141, 243, 206, 75, 241, 195, 262, 211, 258, 144], k=19
[A]: 258


[Q]: [297, 179, 276, 218, 102, 186, 299, 36, 42, 239, 73, 228, 124, 240, 166, 130, 167, 195, 255, 152], k=20
[A]:
299