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]: [132, 110, 134, 50, 237, 170, 154, 144, 138, 196, 231, 30, 142, 107, 159, 162, 225, 29, 211, 167], k=4
[A]: 107


[Q]: [91, 144, 89, 139, 171, 248, 268, 10, 70, 140, 112, 145, 182, 206, 37, 186, 263, 16, 198, 261], k=11
[A]: 145


[Q]: [53, 81, 225, 98, 48, 65, 28, 158, 11, 168, 220, 128, 120, 249, 127, 55, 236, 213, 116, 115], k=10
[A]:
116