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]: [288, 121, 80, 59, 294, 62, 131, 129, 122, 95, 275, 34, 202, 253, 86, 136, 236, 217, 174, 216], k=17
[EX A]: 253

[EX Q]: [165, 225, 23, 126, 79, 185, 30, 208, 275, 131, 296, 238, 171, 229, 174, 145, 24, 187, 159, 218], k=19
[EX A]: 275

[EX Q]: [37, 237, 171, 87, 114, 258, 187, 65, 278, 82, 145, 247, 239, 250, 58, 289, 27, 294, 150, 163], k=5
[EX A]:
82