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


[Q]: [70, 294, 268, 166, 52, 108, 277, 232, 141, 230, 146, 149, 195, 107, 104, 263, 40, 244, 116, 275], k=11
[A]: 166


[Q]: [173, 104, 224, 216, 122, 57, 168, 237, 227, 206, 174, 265, 271, 149, 88, 91, 295, 230, 136, 26], k=8
[A]:
149