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]: [88, 138, 230, 71, 119, 274, 257, 233, 10, 293, 49, 245, 35, 205, 36, 161, 63, 147, 87, 114], k=8
[A]: 88


[Q]: [18, 299, 42, 255, 77, 40, 162, 199, 228, 168, 23, 212, 268, 283, 25, 217, 208, 247, 43, 92], k=14
[A]: 217


[Q]: [123, 278, 137, 258, 34, 281, 121, 33, 104, 111, 225, 89, 79, 184, 60, 47, 10, 46, 150, 241], k=6
[A]:
60