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]: [69, 182, 35, 280, 130, 107, 92, 206, 24, 279, 188, 212, 278, 25, 127, 113, 105, 50, 169, 192], k=20
[A]: 280


[Q]: [296, 36, 295, 271, 34, 28, 177, 155, 26, 266, 24, 278, 146, 292, 217, 108, 15, 167, 33, 80], k=11
[A]: 155


[Q]: [149, 100, 190, 102, 298, 30, 150, 221, 209, 51, 44, 117, 72, 159, 181, 81, 125, 31, 188, 58], k=9
[A]:
102