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]: [102, 43, 136, 220, 223, 84, 26, 32, 126, 133, 183, 116, 15, 56, 254, 18, 135, 68, 47, 243], k=8
[A]: 68


[Q]: [207, 198, 256, 176, 228, 201, 72, 241, 284, 203, 28, 230, 223, 80, 249, 266, 111, 98, 104, 170], k=8
[A]: 176


[Q]: [49, 179, 198, 113, 205, 112, 80, 13, 57, 267, 226, 41, 15, 257, 173, 188, 144, 140, 183, 195], k=20
[A]:
267