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.

Input: Consider Input: [57, 142, 270, 170, 25, 43, 266, 222, 101, 103, 98, 219, 215, 39, 286, 194, 198, 257, 204, 60], k=5

Output: 60


Input: Consider Input: [13, 25, 221, 106, 90, 132, 47, 31, 292, 123, 285, 186, 151, 125, 191, 261, 230, 159, 252, 259], k=4

Output: 47


Input: Consider Input: [73, 175, 152, 44, 121, 161, 196, 159, 119, 30, 145, 254, 252, 201, 126, 224, 278, 80, 102, 212], k=10


Output: 152