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]: [110, 296, 103, 146, 160, 107, 216, 24, 157, 61, 203, 186, 15, 123, 53, 294, 65, 208, 264, 109], k=10
[EX A]: 123

[EX Q]: [297, 154, 166, 65, 256, 282, 150, 241, 67, 255, 79, 232, 27, 192, 81, 298, 144, 155, 252, 111], k=11
[EX A]: 166

[EX Q]: [193, 150, 74, 50, 282, 231, 174, 238, 176, 67, 130, 113, 239, 165, 173, 162, 216, 136, 59, 177], k=12
[EX A]:
174