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]: [296, 139, 50, 190, 196, 299, 77, 247, 204, 145, 227, 90, 246, 259, 23, 193, 233, 75, 276, 10], k=20
[EX A]: 299

[EX Q]: [31, 78, 202, 71, 131, 121, 106, 123, 133, 221, 282, 141, 150, 255, 273, 237, 86, 38, 117, 171], k=18
[EX A]: 255

[EX Q]: [113, 128, 35, 235, 243, 222, 247, 220, 150, 126, 105, 238, 293, 240, 81, 261, 191, 10, 148, 144], k=17
[EX A]:
243